The remarkable sociologist, who is the Investigations Director of the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences at the University of Paris. and author, among other works, of The Metamorphosis of the Social Matter: Chronicles of a Wage-earner, [Original title: Métamorphoses de la question sociale: une chronique du salariat] spoke at the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) at the request of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs in charge of Gerardo Martinez, before a large audience made up of union leaders and people specialized in our country’s labour issues.

Furthermore, after having visited the CGT, he visited the UOCRA venue, where he visited the facilities and shared more than 2 hours with the National Board of Directors’ Trade Unionists, professionals and technicians from UOCRA Social Network, going over the assorted activities the union develops. Castel expressed his approval on what he considered “an authentic summary of what a modern trade union must nowadays represent, providing multidisciplinary answers to the workers and their family needs not being the salary the only way of workers vindication”.

Castel, qualified as the most well-known thinker in labour sociology worldwide, sets out, as his last work central thesis (“Social Insecurity” [original title: L'insécurité sociale]) that the rule of law associated with social welfare must allow to build up a “fellowship society” where everybody can be known as independent individuals, protected from unemployment, disease, accidents at workplace, old age, in other words, protected workers.

According to Castel, the new challenge in social matter is the historical tension that capitalism causes when it theoretically ensures freedom and equity among men and women but workers and their families are subject of the poorest living conditions