Rodolfo Elbert

Rodolfo Elbert
  • Ph.D. in Sociology, UW-Madison
  • Professor at University of Buenos Aires

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Introduction
Investigo temáticas vinculadas a las clases sociales y la estructura social. En particular, la relación entre estructura social, informalidad y lucha de clases en la Argentina actual (estudio multi-método que combina encuestas nacionales con trabajo de campo en fábricas y barrios de la zona norte del GBA). Como dijo alguien, creo que la clase social es la variable independiente principal (o tal vez la única?) de la sociología.
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University of Buenos Aires
Current position
  • Professor

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Publications (18)
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A inicios del año 2020 se desencadenó la pandemia de Covid-19 en el mundo, constituyendo un shock que afectó dinámicas sociales y económicas globales. En la Argentina, las primeras medidas de confinamiento para contener la circulación del virus se implementaron durante el mes de marzo de ese año, generando un impacto en el mercado de trabajo y la e...
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Disponible gratuitamente en: http://www.ceil-conicet.gov.ar/publicaciones/ceil-libros/ma03-atzeni-et-al-2/ Este libro es el resultado de la 36° International Labor Process Conference (ILPC) que se desarrolló en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina entre el 21 y 23 de marzo de 2018. Fue la primera vez, en s...
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La sociología latinoamericana ha debatido extensamente sobre la fragmentación estructural de la clase trabajadora generada por la alta informalidad en el mercado de trabajo (Nun, Murmis, y Marín 1968; Portes 1985; Tokman 1995; Salvia y Chávez Molina 2007; Maceira 2010) La posición extrema en este debate argumentó que el análisis de clase en la regi...
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The cycles of conflicts and struggles and the forms of workers’ collective resistance registered in the last few decades in Latin America reveal the heterogeneous and uneven ways in which the working classes are made and remade. Place-specific socio-political contexts and their effects on employment relations ( McGrath-Champ, Herod, and Rannie, 201...
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Class identity is a key mechanism in the explanation of class-based collective action. For decades, this was particularly relevant in Latin America, where objective class inequality was persistent and there was a long history of collective action, originating in the workplace and expressed through unions and labor parties. Despite persistent inequa...
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The dynamics of peripheral capitalism in Latin America includes the employment or self-employment of a significant proportion of the working class under informal arrangements. The neoliberal transformations of the 1990s deepened this feature of Latin American labor markets, and it was not reversed during the period of economic growth that followed...
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On November 22nd, 2015, Argentines elected Mauricio Macri as President for the 2015-2019 term, by a margin of less than three percent. Macri’s defeat of the Peronista candidate Daniel Scioli marked the end of the long Kirchnerista decade, 2003-2015: after a period of increasing state intervention in the economy and limited wealth redistribution, a...
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Recent Argentine history showed that since 2003 the labor movement became increasingly relevant due to protests organized by unionized formal workers. Labor revitalization in a context of persistent informality raised the following question: Were there union organizing strategies that related formal workers to the broader working class community th...
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La dinámica del conflicto social en los últimos años en la Argentina mostró un ascenso de las protestas protagonizadas por trabajadores ocupados en el sector formal de la economía. Esta reactivación de la protesta sindical en un contexto de alta informalidad laboral plantea el siguiente interrogante: ¿existen estrategias de organización sindical qu...
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The fragmentation of the working class in Latin America over the past three decades has coincided with the decline of labor organizing among workers employed in the formal economy. Research has suggested that the economic segmentation of the working class explains this declining relevance of unions. However, recent Argentine history (2003–2010) sug...
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El objetivo del artículo es analizar las interpretaciones de estudiantes de la Universidad de Buenos Aires acerca de: I) la difusión y gravedad de prácticas corruptas en nuestro país; II) el impacto de la corrupción en el funcionamiento actual del sistema democrático; III) el grado de respeto de leyes y derechos de la población en nuestro país, y I...
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El presente artículo analiza las interpretaciones acerca de los efectos de la corrupción sobre el sistema democrático y el desarrollo económico argentino. Los datos provienen de 196 encuestas realizadas en Buenos Aires en abril y mayo de 2002 durante numerosas movilizaciones de protesta contra el gobierno, la clase política y el modelo neoliberal i...

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I have a dataset with two variables that measure subjective self-definition of class. One is categorical (categories working class, middle class, upper class) while the other is quantitative (self-location in a 1-5 scale)
Is there a statistical test that I can perform to analyze the convergence and divergence between the two measures? I also have a relevant independent variable, so I could see wich dependent performs better in terms of the independent. What test could I use for that given that one is categorical and the other is quantitative?
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I am advising a student who is interested in studying the class identity and political orientation of the middle class in Argentina from a micro-social qualitative perspective. Any good contemporary international studies to recommend for the lit review section? 

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