Para el estudio de la difusión del Modelo Obrero. Tres historias desde Chile

• Main Author: Patrizio Tonelli
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade do Porto 2016-12-01
• Series: Laboreal
• Subjects: History; health at work; Chile; Italian Worker's Model
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1646-52372016000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=es

During the seventies, the Italian Workers' Model represented the "most complete" participatory action research (PAR) proposal in the field of workers' health. From Italy, it spread and influenced the struggle for the protection of the workers' health of other national contexts. This article presents a historical reconstruction of three experiences in implementing the Italian Workers' Model in Chile during the 90s of the last century in three different working places (sectors). These experiences show, on the one hand, the ability of the model to adapt to new contexts and demands and, on the other hand, the problems linked to the practice of non-delegation. The paper intends to be an historiographical contribution to enrich the study and understanding of the Italian Workers' Model and its past success, pointing at the same time, to rediscover it as a contribution to rethink the current ways in which workers and experts address the occupational health domain.