Promesas y desencantos de los “nuevos” trabajos: un análisis de los mecanismos de sujeción en los recuperadores de residuos

• Main Authors: Pedro Lisdero, Gabriela Vergara
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Pelotas 2010-06-01
• Series: Pensamento Plural
• Subjects: work; conflict; body; waste collectors; social phantoms and fantasies
• Online Access: http://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/ojs2/index.php/pensamentoplural/article/viewFile/3657/2993

This paper explores the social mechanisms that are activated in Argentina after the crisis of 2001, and that facilitate the consolidation of a state of precarious balance between normality and rupture. From an analysis of conflicts associated with waste collectors, it is proposed a hermeneutic of the social processes of structuration. From the analysis of interviews arises "the Fantasy of the fall and the phantom of honorable poverty" and "Fantasy of Wage horizon and the phantom of unemployment" as the combined practices and perceptions that occlude conflict and plug the disruptive potential of these subjects’ procedure.