Musical Workers’ Precarity Uncovered and the Revival of Mutual Aid in Chile

Eileen Karmy and Estefanía Urqueta Independent Researchers The protests that began in Chile in October 2019 revealed the crisis of a process of democratisation with pending matters. The protests were mostly directed against the legacy of the Pinochet dictatorship, which for thirty years has been run by successive elected governments, keeping intact the neoliberal reforms of hyperprivatisation and minimal state regulations (Riethof, 2019). Musicians, artists and other cultural workers took pa..