ABSTRACT
The period of Kirchnerist governments (2003-2015) meant record growth in terms of spending on social policies. It was presented as one of the evidences of a change in the relationship between market and state. Macri’s government (2015-present), with its policy of adjustment, appears as its counterpart. The common explanatory element in the analyses lies in the will of the governments to favor both the State and the “corporations”. In this article we seek to account for the limits of the conceptions that see two antagonistic models. In opposition to them, we propose that the analysis of social policy cannot be abstracted from the problem of the concrete subject to which it is addressed. That is to say, we must confront in an immediate way the problem of the form that has the reproduction of the working class in Argentina. Starting from the world unity of capital, we realize the specific form of local capital, of which the working class is an attribute. Once the development of Argentine specificity and the transformations of the working class have been unfolded, we seek to account for the content of social policy during Kirchnerism and the first years of macrist government as a concrete form of this movement.
KEYWORDS: Social Policy; Social Expenditure; Capital Accumulation; Argentine Specificity
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