La privatización de YPF en Comodoro Rivadavia: Algunas características y consecuencias sociales y laborales

the objective of this article is to analyze the process of privatization of the company ypf in the san jorge gulf, more specifically in the comodoro rivadavia area, province of chubut. i am interested in studying the social consequences of this privatization in terms of the labour market, but also paying attention to the cultural, social, and political aspects that were also altered. first, i will present a brief description and analysis of the characteristics of the oil company's privatization, and of the peculiar production conditions it had in the patagonian region. then, i will stop on the different labor strategies which originated after the sale of the company, which are related to proposals of labor rehabilitation or of reconfiguration of the labor market structure, and on their results. finally, i am interested in introducing the topic of the "indirect" consequences of the reconfiguration of the main economic company of the region, i.e. the redefinition of the main variables of the social, political, cultural, and economical life of the area. i am particularly interested in analyzing whether a change in the concept of "work" can be observed, and also the territorial displacements which occurred in the city of comodoro and its area of influence. this analysis will be carried through the study of an unemployed people's movement of the region: "coordinadora de trabajadores desocupados - anibal verón."