Paradigma de activación y políticas sociales en América Latina

Abstract

Hand in hand with neoliberalism, from the 1970s on, a new way of conceiving the social management of unemployment and poverty was defined, which is characterized by including different social programs grouped under the workfare concept. The central axis of this transformation is linked to a change in the diagnosis of employment and poverty problems that are beginning to be strongly biased towards the characteristics assumed by the supply that are posed at the individual and micro-social level. In Latin America, this reconfiguration is crystallized in the proliferation of a set of conditional cash transfer programs. In this framework, the main objective of this article is to analyze, from a critical perspective, which are the theoretical supports on which the implementation of these devices is based and analyze how they are expressed in the devices implemented in Latin America since 2000.