Open AccessCredencialismo y recomendación: las bases de la reproducción de la clase obrera siderúrgica en la Argentina contemporánea
Author(s) -
Laura Perelman,
Patricia Vargas
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
antipoda/antípoda
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.159
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 1900-5407
pISSN - 2011-4273
DOI - 10.7440/antipoda17.2013.08
Subject(s) - reproduction , humanities , factory (object oriented programming) , political science , state (computer science) , ethnography , sociology , art , biology , computer science , anthropology , ecology , programming language , algorithm
This article focuses on the reproduction of the iron and steel working class in contemporary Argentina. The ethnography looks at the case of the formerly state-run steel company Somisa, which was privatized in the 1990s. After privatization, staff recruiting and hiring practices underwent a substantial transformation, marking the end of the earlier custom-based mechanisms of intergenerational job transfer. However, workers still attempt to preserve and reinvent these mechanisms at the factory through credentialism and recommendation