Labor, social rights and social protection in Argentina based on the neoliberal reconstruction

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The article analyzes the reorganization of social protection in Argentina, which began at the end of 2015. The parameter of analysis is the end of central policies based on the strategy of inclusion through employment, which was a mark of the previous political cycle that declared a social security moratorium and promoted labor cooperatives. The study used documentary analysis and observed how the meaning of work was rebuilt, as well as looking at the recognition of rights in the definition of social problems, and the state’s intervention strategies to address these problems. The analysis shows that the processes of neoliberal counter-reform in progress converge in the redefinition of the social value of work and the future of vulnerable populations’ social and economic integration. These new meanings are based on a restricted and mercantile interpretation of social and labor rights, bringing as consequences the “assistencialization” and the individualization of social protection.

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Malena Victoria Hopp, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Doctor of Social Sciences from Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Researcher at the Centro Cultural de Cooperación Floreal Gorini (CCC). Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Social Work Course and Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research at the Gino Germani Research Institute of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UAB).

Eliana Lijterman, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Master’s degree in Research in Social Sciences from Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Social Work Course of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UAB).

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2019-04-25

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Vol. 22 No. 1 (2019): Social protection in contemporary capitalism: counter-reforms and regression of social rights

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