Hernán M. Palermo holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires and a degree in Anthropology from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UBA. He is currently an independent researcher at CONICET in the CEIL's Critical Studies of the Labor Movement program. He is also a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the UBA and at the Arturo Jauretche National University (UNAJ). He has taught postgraduate courses at various universities in Argentina on topics related to work and research methodologies. He is the director of the Master's Degree in Latin American Labor Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires (https://posgrado.filo.uba.ar/m-trabajo). He is also the director of the Latin American Journal of Labor Anthropology, which belongs to CEIL in Argentina and CIESAS in Mexico.

His lines of research fall within the field of social sciences of work, with an emphasis on work anthropology, studies on work and gender, and the analysis of transformations derived from digital technologies and platforms.

 
Most important publications

2025 (with Doval, Antonio). La Utopía de Libertad en la Era del Capitalismo de Plataformas. El caso de la plataforma Workana en Argentina. Sociología del Trabajo 106. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/STRA/index

2024 (with Krepki Denise y Ventrici, Patricia). Época de unicornios. Economía y discurso de las empresas tecnológicas en el sur global. Revista Papeles de Trabajo. (17) 32, 40-59. https://revistasacademicas.unsam.edu.ar/index.php/papdetrab/article/view/1603

2024 (with Ventrici, Patricia). El capitalismo contemporáneo. Entre el neoliberalismo tecno-progresista y las nuevas derechas libertarias. Transformaciones en el mundo del trabajo: perspectivas para el siglo XXI. Boletín del Grupo de Trabajo CLACSO El trabajo en el capitalismo contemporáneo (1). https://www.clacso.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/V1_Transformaciones-en-el-Mundo-del-Trabajo_N1.pdf

2023 (with Balazote Alejandro) (compiladores). Estudios de ciencias sociales del trabajo. Buenos Aires: Editorial de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UBA https://publicaciones.filo.uba.ar/sites/publicaciones.filo.uba.ar/files/LC-CS_Sociales_para_el_trabajo.pdf

2023 (with Casas, Verónica). Prácticas y representaciones sobre lo femenino y lo masculino, y su contribución en procesos de precarización laboral. Desacatos. Revista De Ciencias Sociales, (72), 154–167. https://desacatos.ciesas.edu.mx/index.php/Desacatos/article/view/2679

2023 (with Ventrici, Patricia). El ADN emprendedor. Mercado Libre y el devenir tecnoneoliberal. Buenos Aires: Biblos

2022 (with Molina, Juan Ignacio).  Plataformas digitales de delivery y el (des)extrañamiento del trabajo. Trabajo y Sociedad (39).  https://www.unse.edu.ar/trabajoysociedad/39%20PALERMO%20y%20MOLINA%20Plataformas%20de%20delibery.pdf

2020 (with Capogrossi María Lorena) (dir.) (2020). Tratado latinoamericano de Antropología del Trabajo, Buenos Aires: CLACSO. CEIL CONICET. CIECS. Disponible en: https://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/clacso/se/20201117071349/Tratado-latinoamericano.pdf

2017. La producción de la masculinidad en el trabajo petrolero. Buenos Aires: Biblos. Disponible en: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx9poZSnGQ5ZaURUZEd0bEdvZEE/view

2012. Cadenas de oro negro en el esplendor y ocaso de YPF. Editorial Antropofagia, Buenos Aires. Disponible en: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3aNWsaTldMgSzkyb1pfNFl6V1U/edit?pli=1

Research project as a CALAS fellow (CALAS Cuba guest chair)

Title: Platforms for freelance workers in Cuba and Argentina: Experiences of workers who sell digital services

Abstract: The purpose of this research proposal is to produce scientific knowledge about the implications and transformations in the world of work resulting from the rapid advance of the platformization of work in the context of the formal employment crisis. In particular, we are interested in analyzing the paradigmatic case of sellers of digital services in Cuba and Argentina, conducting a comparative analysis. There are various digital service platforms used in Latin America and the Caribbean, such as UpWork, Fiverr, Freelancer, and Workana. We believe that this universe of platforms constitutes a paradigmatic case, which allows us to understand some of the dimensions that the formal employment crisis opens up at the global level.