Inequalities and social change
El CLACSO Working Group on Inequalities and Social ChangeThis study aims to analyze the persistence and transformation of inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean from a situated, critical, and interdisciplinary perspective of the Global South. We begin by recognizing that structural heterogeneity is a historical feature of the region, expressed in segmented production systems, unequal labor markets, and heterogeneous welfare regimes that limit social integration.
The Working Group seeks to understand how these inequalities are reproduced over time and reconfigured in the current context, marked by transformations in the world of work, the expansion of informality, digitalization, and the platform economy, which deepen pre-existing forms of precarity. It also incorporates an intersectional perspective that articulates class, gender, ethnicity, and territory, placing special emphasis on the role of families—and particularly women—in social reproduction in contexts of crisis.
Based on comparative research, training, and dialogue with social and public policy actors, the GT aims to produce rigorous knowledge that not only describes inequalities but also contributes to challenging the meanings of development and strengthening agendas oriented towards distributive justice and democratic deepening in the region.
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Iliana Yaschine
University Program of Development Studies
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Mexico
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Sofia Vanoli
Department of Sociology
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of the Republic
Uruguay
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Jesica Lorena Pla
Center for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences
Vice-rectory
Inter-American Open University
Argentina
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