Abstract

MANEIRO, María. Social Representations about the the Universal Child Allowance (AUH) among peripheral urban lower classes. Trab. soc. [online]. 2017, n.29, pp.611-629. ISSN 1514-6871.

In this article the Universal Child Allowance (AUH) is analyzed from a historical itinerary point of view regarding social security in Argentina. Following this line of thought, the article begins with a brief overview regarding the process of understanding social protections as an establishment with crisis due to the importance of informality work. After that, AUH is described: requirements, possibilities and difficulties. The originality of this presentation is based on the idea of investigating the social representations that the peripheral urban lower classes elaborate around the social security, in general and the AUH, in particular. For this purpose, four cases were selected that correspond to diverse socio-occupational trajectories, under the hypothesis that this prism can be useful to analyze different meanings about our object. Finally, with this substrate, various representative profiles around social segurity are put into scene. The suggested profiles are: the exclusive employee, the proactive worker, the ascetic beneficiary and the claimant citizen. The empirical base used on this presentation is a series of semi-structured interviews conducted during the month of November 2014 in Buenos Aires.

Keywords : Social security; Informality work; Work; Universal Child Allowance; Social Policy; Social representations.

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