A Time Out of Joint Reflections on Labor Precarization and Social Impoverishment in the Context of Argentina’s Crisis
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In this article, I examine the moral attitudes and emotional dispositions of social actors in relation to economic reality within capitalist societies marked by a colonial past, through an in-depth case study of contemporary Argentine social reality. Building on the recent interest in Critical Theory in the emerging social forms of suffering, I aim to reconstruct how contexts of crisis shape and transform the subjectivity of workers. To this end, I explore the meanings that individuals attribute to the temporal dimension of two of the most emblematic expressions of the current capitalist crisis: labor precarization and social impoverishment in inflationary contexts.
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