The emergence of the labor "good sense" in the oil industry in Bolivia

Abstract

In this article, based on information obtained through ethnographic work, that part of the worker's consciousness, born of everyday work practice, which Gramsci called the "good sense" of worker consciousness and which contradicts common sense inherited from the past is identified and valued theoretically. Through the case study of two companies in the oil sector in Bolivia, it is shown how the workers establish their own conception of the relations of exploitation and domination in which they are immersed, which is contradictory with the dominant ideology and from which , resist and fight. It is polemicized with theoretical positions of post-structuralist stamp of the sociology of contemporary work, which postulate the colonization of worker consciousness by common sense inculcated by business leaders. Our goal is to understand and explain, how elite workers and fluctuating workers, from the development of "good sense" struggle and resist domination and exploitation daily within the work process.