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This article analyzes what were the modes of political action deployed by the groups that led the Argentine trade union confederations (Confederación General del Trabajo and Central de Trabajadores de la Argentina) between 2007 and 2015. This period, coinciding with the two governments of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, witnessed different initiatives of union politicization. Using a qualitative methodological strategy and a theoretical approach focused on the multiple rationalities that operate in the realization of political actions in different arenas, we periodize the stage in three major moments and show the outcome of four forms of political action located in a continuum that goes from the separation to the overlap between unionism and politics: the purely corporate action, the dispute for political representation outside the Peronist spectrum, the dispute for political representation within the Peronist spectrum and the "politicization of the union". Likewise, we highlight the importance that the discussion on union autonomy and the links between unionism and politics gained in this stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article identifies and interprets the continuities and transformations in the material reproduction mechanisms of a union at different historical stages, under the hypothesis that the union economy is vital to understand the dynamics and strategies of trade unions. We use the concept of union material reproduction mechanisms and we analyze three dimensions: the level of complexity, its effects on organizational and patrimonial structure and its relationship with the workers political economy. We perform a case study in depth: the guild of Luz y Fuerza Capital Federal (LYFCF) of Argentina in three historical stages (1943-1976, 1976-1992, and 1992-2003). This article concludes that there is an analytical vacuum about union economy, and that this dimension is relevant in any union building and strategies defining. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]