ABSTRACT
In treating the changes that have occurred in Argentine society, particularly with regard to its occupational and social structure, this chapter examines the perspective of power. It presents a view of society from the elusive terrain of politics, at a certain historical conjuncture, and presupposing a certain explanatory power for the changes that have occurred in Argentine society. The chapter argues that the social changes analysed as the heritage of the dictatorship, which leave in Argentine society deep changes in the social power of the actors, become a challenge to the political imagination of the popular sectors. The peculiar Argentine combination of a high weight of employers and of wage earners in the active population expresses the coexistence of diverse strata of owners, and the great diffusion of wage labor. The world crisis and its more acute repercussions on the Argentine economy had brought to the fore that form of capital that is abstract, mobile, and favorable to speculation.
