Moisés K. Rojas Ramos

Principal Investigator

Moises is a professor at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) and is currently studying for a master’s degree in Social and Political Thought at the University of Leeds (UK).

He studied Sociology at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) and a master’s degree in Comparative Politics at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP). He was a Grad Council Member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in the Labour Studies Section and co-coordinator of the Working Group and Productive Restructuring of the Latin American Sociological Association (ALAS). He is a member of the Institute of Andean Political Studies (IEPA) and director of research projects in Consensos y Estudios Sociales. His research topics are labor informality, political behavior, and interactive media.

For the Fairwork project, Moisés will participate in the methodological design, data analysis and dissemination of results. He will contribute to the process of drafting, and will qualifying the reports of platform companies.

His recent publications include:

• Neoliberalization and “really existing neoliberalism” in Latin America (2022). Latin American Association of Sociology (ALAS) and Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO).
• Problems and proposals. Urban informality in pandemic contexts (2021). Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
• Precarious labor informality, space and its consequences for collective action (2021). The case of Gamara. Pacific University.

A full list of his publications can be found here.