Communication, politics and agricultural work. Contributions around a political union organization of yerba mate harvesters and their participation in the mediated public space

Abstract

This article presents an investigation about public communication practices developed by a group of rural workers gathered in the Tareferos de Misiones Union (SITAJA), which articulates communication, politics and agricultural work.

In it we present some aspects related to the communicative practices carried out by an organization and its intervention in the public space within the framework of its configuration as a political and union actor that publicly disputes for the recognition and exercise of rights of harvest workers of yerba mate. In this sense, we will seek to understand these practices by accessing the senses that the SITAJA gives to its actions in the public space, to the media as central actors in its configuration, to the demands and claims that it builds as an object of its struggle, political and union and the different actors with whom it relates.