Vision regarding Chilean labor legislation, from subjects in disability situation with political participation

• Main Authors: Evelyn Sosa V., Danitza Tenorio C., Ximena Toro V., Rodrigo Sepúlveda P., Juan Aedo B., Patricio Espinoza C., César Rodríguez U.
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Chile 2015-08-01
• Series: Revista Chilena de Terapia Ocupacional
• Online Access: https://revistaterapiaocupacional.uchile.cl/index.php/RTO/article/view/37129
• ISSN: 0717-6767; 0719-5346

This rsearch is framed in the thematic “Disability and Chilean labor legislation” with the purpose of incorporating the vision of the subjects in disability situation with experience and political action. The aim of this research is to analyze the political vision regarding the current Chilean labor legislation, from the subjects in disability situation belonging to the group “Palos de ciego” during 2014. A participatory methodology with qualitative focusing is used, oriented to emancipation, with ethnographic perspective. Data gathering is from participant observation, field notes, and in-depth interviews. The analysis of information is done through open coding.Results are structured from three thematic axes: political vision of the labor legislation, limitations and proposals of transformation of the Chilean labor inclusion. The central issue is related to the dominant logic, under which the state acts on a subsidiary basis, not recognizing the inherent rights of the subjects in disability situation. The group proposes strategies of transformation of political order, with incidence in global and specific aspects, standing out the importance of awareness in society regarding compression of disability as a political problem. Finally, is expressed the challenge of enlarge occupational therapy to a political scope, encouraging the professional’s participation in the processes of political struggle of the subjects in situation of disability, as well as political participation thereof.