Career, Class, and Social Reproduction in the Life Stories of Outsourced Cleaners
In this paper, we employ the life story method to investigate the multiple boundaries that, visible or invisibly, have influenced the trajectories of outsourced cleaners working in organizations, delimiting their career opportunities. Based on the Bourdieusian framework, we aim to contribute to the...
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| author | Filipe Augusto Silveira de Souza Ana Heloisa da Costa Lemos |
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| description | In this paper, we employ the life story method to investigate the multiple boundaries that, visible or invisibly, have influenced the trajectories of outsourced cleaners working in organizations, delimiting their career opportunities. Based on the Bourdieusian framework, we aim to contribute to the expansion of the debate in the field of career studies by emphasizing the influence of the contextual dimension of analysis in the career construction process. Above all, we privilege a social class perspective, scarcely present in career studies, in which the dominance of constructs such as boundaryless and protean careers reflects the typical emphasis attributed to individual agency. Access to the life stories of the respondents enabled us to unveil multiple boundaries interposed throughout their trajectories, associated with family (family disorganization and early transitions: maternity, conjugality, and insertion into domestic work), educational (early school dropout), neighborhood (local ties associated with low career returns), and professional (intersubjective relationships associated with experiences of pleasure and social humiliation) contexts. Taken together, these boundaries ended up circumscribing the topography of their careers by largely limiting them to providing care and cleaning services. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e36d2719080645e9824792aaf8b9c6df2023-12-13T14:39:38ZengAssociação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD)BAR: Brazilian Administration Review1807-76922023-10-01204e230026e23002610.1590/1807-7692bar2023230026619Career, Class, and Social Reproduction in the Life Stories of Outsourced CleanersFilipe Augusto Silveira de Souza0Ana Heloisa da Costa Lemos1Fundação Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, BrazilPontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, IAG Business School, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BrazilIn this paper, we employ the life story method to investigate the multiple boundaries that, visible or invisibly, have influenced the trajectories of outsourced cleaners working in organizations, delimiting their career opportunities. Based on the Bourdieusian framework, we aim to contribute to the expansion of the debate in the field of career studies by emphasizing the influence of the contextual dimension of analysis in the career construction process. Above all, we privilege a social class perspective, scarcely present in career studies, in which the dominance of constructs such as boundaryless and protean careers reflects the typical emphasis attributed to individual agency. Access to the life stories of the respondents enabled us to unveil multiple boundaries interposed throughout their trajectories, associated with family (family disorganization and early transitions: maternity, conjugality, and insertion into domestic work), educational (early school dropout), neighborhood (local ties associated with low career returns), and professional (intersubjective relationships associated with experiences of pleasure and social humiliation) contexts. Taken together, these boundaries ended up circumscribing the topography of their careers by largely limiting them to providing care and cleaning services.https://bar.anpad.org.br/index.php/bar/article/view/619careerboundariessocial classlife storiesbourdieu |
| spellingShingle | Filipe Augusto Silveira de Souza Ana Heloisa da Costa Lemos Career, Class, and Social Reproduction in the Life Stories of Outsourced Cleaners BAR: Brazilian Administration Review career boundaries social class life stories bourdieu |
| title | Career, Class, and Social Reproduction in the Life Stories of Outsourced Cleaners |
| title_full | Career, Class, and Social Reproduction in the Life Stories of Outsourced Cleaners |
| title_fullStr | Career, Class, and Social Reproduction in the Life Stories of Outsourced Cleaners |
| title_full_unstemmed | Career, Class, and Social Reproduction in the Life Stories of Outsourced Cleaners |
| title_short | Career, Class, and Social Reproduction in the Life Stories of Outsourced Cleaners |
| title_sort | career class and social reproduction in the life stories of outsourced cleaners |
| topic | career boundaries social class life stories bourdieu |
| url | https://bar.anpad.org.br/index.php/bar/article/view/619 |
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