Where do industrial workers fit into this picture of the labor movement?
A.: The bulk of industrial workers are unemployed today. They used to be 40 percent of the labor force. Theyre under 20 percent today. So we have to think of the unemployed not as some kind of poor, urban street vendors. Were talking about Argentina. Were talking about guys that worked in auto plants, who were steelworkers, who were metallurgy and mechanical workers. When I spoke last May at a meeting in Argentina, I met a great many workers who had backgrounds in the trade unions. And whats even more interesting are the wives of former industrial workers. One of the things Ive noted is the militancy and high levels of participation of wives of industrial workerswives whove taken on even more family responsibilities because their husbands have become disoriented, in part because of long-term unemployment. The women are the ones to call them out on the picket line to go down and be active in order to get a job. Because if youre not on the road blockage, youre not there to get a job when
