Nicolas DAMIN is a researcher at the Center for Argentina-China Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and a professor at the National University of Lanus. His research topics are Studies on China-Latin America relations and production-labor studies. His major publications are Sociologia Historia Y Memoria De Los Pueblos Ferroviarios and other monographs dealing with the industrial relations in Argentina and the China-Argentina cooperation in the mining sector.