Collective Action, Organisation and the Struggle for an Alternative Food System: An Interview with Pocho, Union Trabajadores de la Tierra, Argentina

Abstract

Abstract The following is an interview with Pocho, Union Trabajadores de la Tierra ( utt ) activist from the Argentinean province of Chubut. The interview highlights the struggle based process of growth of the organisation, the labour centred strategy that have characterised utt , but also how workers direct economic concerns were built into an economically alternative and ecologically sustainable project. The interview put in evidence the challenges and opportunities for a social movement that accepts to play on both the front of workers’ rights and demands and that of market competition.