Mutations of the urban experience and employment

This article inquires into the societal dimensions of contemporary mutations of work, in particular their disconnection from employment mechanisms through various forms of casual work and outsourcing. In other words, it asks in what way the new realities of work (and non-work) redraw the social worl...

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Main Authors: Vera da Silva Telles, Renato Rezende
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade de Sâo Paulo
Series:Tempo Social
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Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-20702007000100003&lng=en&tlng=en
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description This article inquires into the societal dimensions of contemporary mutations of work, in particular their disconnection from employment mechanisms through various forms of casual work and outsourcing. In other words, it asks in what way the new realities of work (and non-work) redraw the social world, the relations of force and the fields of practices that make up the texture of the city and its spaces. The circumstances of casual and intermittent labour alter the time and space of social experience, as well as the urban experience itself in the decentred circuits we can denominate "territories of precariousness". The article proposes to investigate these new realities by following the paths and urban trajectories of the new generations. It suggests that this is a fertile entry point for describing this redefined social world: the difference between generations today has the historical peculiarity of coinciding with deep changes in the world of work and in urban dynamics. This is also a way of re-approaching the question of the meanings of work and its structuring effects on social life.
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spelling doaj.art-6153c6df4fa34ad380d2cf18e61c34672022-12-21T18:09:51ZporUniversidade de Sâo PauloTempo Social0103-20701809-45543seS0103-20702007000100003Mutations of the urban experience and employmentVera da Silva Telles0Renato RezendeUniversity of São PauloThis article inquires into the societal dimensions of contemporary mutations of work, in particular their disconnection from employment mechanisms through various forms of casual work and outsourcing. In other words, it asks in what way the new realities of work (and non-work) redraw the social world, the relations of force and the fields of practices that make up the texture of the city and its spaces. The circumstances of casual and intermittent labour alter the time and space of social experience, as well as the urban experience itself in the decentred circuits we can denominate "territories of precariousness". The article proposes to investigate these new realities by following the paths and urban trajectories of the new generations. It suggests that this is a fertile entry point for describing this redefined social world: the difference between generations today has the historical peculiarity of coinciding with deep changes in the world of work and in urban dynamics. This is also a way of re-approaching the question of the meanings of work and its structuring effects on social life.http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-20702007000100003&lng=en&tlng=enmutations of workurban reconfigurationsgenerational differencesocial practicessocial experience
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Mutations of the urban experience and employment
Tempo Social
mutations of work
urban reconfigurations
generational difference
social practices
social experience
title Mutations of the urban experience and employment
title_full Mutations of the urban experience and employment
title_fullStr Mutations of the urban experience and employment
title_full_unstemmed Mutations of the urban experience and employment
title_short Mutations of the urban experience and employment
title_sort mutations of the urban experience and employment
topic mutations of work
urban reconfigurations
generational difference
social practices
social experience
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