Politics at the heart of precarious work in Chile: An approach to experience subcontracted workers export economy

Chile's sociopolitical image seems to have changed. Social mobilizations are shaking up the post-dictatorship landscape, which has been dominated by the absence of social conflict in the public sphere. These mobilizations are leading to political realignments, but they have not succeeded in transforming the neoliberal model of society. The country's political and macroeconomic stability has been shaken, but it nevertheless masks a deep social unease with the processes of neoliberal modernization. In this context, precarious forms of work have expanded as never before. Subcontracted work is the archetype of this phenomenon, and daily experience shows not only various forms of suffering, but also individual and collective resistance to the structural precariousness of this work regime. This research highlights the socio-political significance of subcontracted work based on an analysis of the experience of workers in the export economy and the processes of subjectivation initiated by their union actions.