Credencialismo y recomendación: las bases de la reproducción de la clase obrera siderúrgica en la Argentina contemporánea

• Main Authors: Laura Perelman, Patricia Vargas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) 2013-07-01
• Series: Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
• Subjects: Reproduction of the working class; iron and steel industry; credentialism; recommendation.
• Online Access: http://antipoda.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/272/index.php?id=272

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.