The jobs that are worthwhile. Dialogues based on two ethnographies together with organizations of popular economy workers

This article analyses how work is defined, experienced and valued in experiences of collective organization in the popular economy. It establishes a dialogue between the results of two ethnographic studies with two organizations that form a part of the Popular Economy Workers Union/Confederation. Wh...

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Autores principales: Señorans, Dolores, Pacífico, Florencia Daniela
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2023
Materias:
Popular Economy; Work; Reproduction of Life; Collective Organization; Ethnography
Economía Popular; Trabajo; Reproducción de la vida; Organización colectiva; Etnografía
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/33889
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Revistas de la UNC de Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
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Economía Popular; Trabajo; Reproducción de la vida; Organización colectiva; Etnografía
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The jobs that are worthwhile. Dialogues based on two ethnographies together with organizations of popular economy workers
topic_facet Popular Economy; Work; Reproduction of Life; Collective Organization; Ethnography
Economía Popular; Trabajo; Reproducción de la vida; Organización colectiva; Etnografía
author Señorans, Dolores
Pacífico, Florencia Daniela
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Pacífico, Florencia Daniela
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title The jobs that are worthwhile. Dialogues based on two ethnographies together with organizations of popular economy workers
title_short The jobs that are worthwhile. Dialogues based on two ethnographies together with organizations of popular economy workers
title_full The jobs that are worthwhile. Dialogues based on two ethnographies together with organizations of popular economy workers
title_fullStr The jobs that are worthwhile. Dialogues based on two ethnographies together with organizations of popular economy workers
title_full_unstemmed The jobs that are worthwhile. Dialogues based on two ethnographies together with organizations of popular economy workers
title_sort jobs that are worthwhile. dialogues based on two ethnographies together with organizations of popular economy workers
description This article analyses how work is defined, experienced and valued in experiences of collective organization in the popular economy. It establishes a dialogue between the results of two ethnographic studies with two organizations that form a part of the Popular Economy Workers Union/Confederation. While academic inquiries on these experiences have pointed out that the appeal to an identity as workers lay the foundations of their claims for rights to the State, here we will seek to show how the construction of an expanded definition of work permeates the daily practices of those who belong to these organizations. Drawing on anthropological perspectives on labor that moved beyond the limited definitions of hegemonic economic models and contributions of feminist economics, we seek to show that the practices developed in these productive units and their interactions with the State evidence the overlap of what is usually conceptualized as productive and reproductive, related to labor and the community, giving rise to a reinvention of what is understood as “work” and in particular as worthwhile or “productive” work. We contend that these ways of valuing, ranking and disputing what work is and what jobs are socially relevant assert the value of those who perform them in their struggle for the recognition of their rights.
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url https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/33889
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spelling I10-R10-article-338892023-01-05T04:16:15Z The jobs that are worthwhile. Dialogues based on two ethnographies together with organizations of popular economy workers Los trabajos que valen. Diálogos a partir de dos etnografías junto a organizaciones de trabajadores de la economía popular Señorans, Dolores Pacífico, Florencia Daniela Popular Economy; Work; Reproduction of Life; Collective Organization; Ethnography Economía Popular; Trabajo; Reproducción de la vida; Organización colectiva; Etnografía This article analyses how work is defined, experienced and valued in experiences of collective organization in the popular economy. It establishes a dialogue between the results of two ethnographic studies with two organizations that form a part of the Popular Economy Workers Union/Confederation. While academic inquiries on these experiences have pointed out that the appeal to an identity as workers lay the foundations of their claims for rights to the State, here we will seek to show how the construction of an expanded definition of work permeates the daily practices of those who belong to these organizations. Drawing on anthropological perspectives on labor that moved beyond the limited definitions of hegemonic economic models and contributions of feminist economics, we seek to show that the practices developed in these productive units and their interactions with the State evidence the overlap of what is usually conceptualized as productive and reproductive, related to labor and the community, giving rise to a reinvention of what is understood as “work” and in particular as worthwhile or “productive” work. We contend that these ways of valuing, ranking and disputing what work is and what jobs are socially relevant assert the value of those who perform them in their struggle for the recognition of their rights. En este trabajo, se analizan los modos en que se define, vivencia y valoriza el trabajo en experiencias de organización colectiva de la economía popular. Partimos de poner en diálogo resultados de dos investigaciones etnográficas desarrolladas junto a dos organizaciones nucleadas en la Confederación/Unión de Trabajadores de la Economía Popular. Mientras que los estudios sobre estas experiencias señalaron que la apelación a un sujeto trabajador constituyó la base del proceso de formulación de demandas por derechos hacia el Estado, aquí buscaremos dar cuenta del modo en que la construcción de una definición ampliada del trabajo permea las prácticas cotidianas de quienes integran las organizaciones. Recuperando perspectivas antropológicas que propusieron repensar el trabajo más allá de modelos económicos hegemónicos y aportes de la economía feminista, buscaremos mostrar que tanto las prácticas desarrolladas en las unidades productivas como sus modos de interactuar con el Estado evidencian la imbricación de lo que habitualmente se conceptualiza como productivo y reproductivo, laboral y comunitario, y dan lugar a una reinvención de aquello que se entiende como “trabajo” y en particular como trabajos que valen o son considerados “productivos”. Sostenemos que estas formas de valorizar, jerarquizar y disputar qué es trabajo y qué trabajos son socialmente relevantes constituye la base de la reivindicación del valor de quienes los llevan adelante en su lucha por el reconocimiento de sus derechos. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2023-01-05 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares application/pdf text/html https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/33889 Astrolabio; No. 30 (2023): Enero - Junio: Temática libre; 61-92 Astrolabio; Núm. 30 (2023): Enero - Junio: Temática libre; 61-92 Astrolabio; n. 30 (2023): Enero - Junio: Temática libre; 61-92 1668-7515 10.55441/1668.7515.n30 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/33889/40284 https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/33889/40285 Derechos de autor 2023 Dolores Señorans, Florencia Daniela Pacífico https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

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