Paula Varela
Tue, Mar 25
|11am EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
Respondent: Constanza Filloy, Villanova University
Time & Location
Mar 25, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
11am EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
About the event
Speaker Bio
Paula Varela is Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Senior Researcher at the Center for Labor Studies and Research of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CEIL-CONICET). She received her Ph.D. from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and subsequently studied at UNICAMP (Brazil) and Indiana University (US). She is the director of the Colectivo de Investigación de las Trabajadoras y los Trabajadores en la Argentina actual (CITTA) at the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute (IEALC-UBA). She specializes in labor studies, gender and Social Reproduction Theory. She works on the relation between capitalism to class formation, gender oppression, social reproduction crisis and labor and feminist movements. Varela’s recent books are ¿Hacia dónde va el trabajo? Informalidad, digitalización y reproducción social en América Latina (CITTA-CEIL, 2024); Mujeres trabajadoras: puente entra la producción y la reproducción social (CEIL, 2020).
Publications
Long Live the Women's Committee by Cinzia Arruzza & Paula Varela
Social Reproduction in Dispute by Paula Varela (2021)
