Rodolfo Elbert

Rodolfo Elbert is currently tenured full-time researcher at the CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina) based at the Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani (Universidad de Buenos Aires). He is also Assistant Professor at the Sociology Department, Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he teaches different graduate and undergraduate courses on Introductory Statistics, Sociological Theory and Social Inequality. He researches about labor, class and informality in Latin America and published articles in international journals such as Current Sociology, Critical Sociology, and Latin American Perspectives. His forthcoming book, Informality, Class and Union Activism in Latin America (2003–2011), is currently in press as part of the Critique and Alternatives to Capitalism series published by Routledge. Based in Argentina, Rodolfo sustains multiple international collaborations with scholars in the US, Chile, Canada and United Kingdom; and chaired the Labor Studies and Class Relations section of the Latin American Studies Association between 2016 and 2018.