Abstract

HAIDAR, Victoria. The emergence and decline of absenteeism as a problem for the  government of the working population (Argentine, XX century). Trab. soc. [online]. 2013, n.20, pp.395-425. ISSN 1514-6871.

Currently, absenteeism has been erased almost entirely from the vocabulary of work science. However, this deletion does not correspond to what happens in the plane of labour's world practices, or, either, with statements from the political discourse; areas where absenteeism is still an object of concern. Faced with these contradictions, this article explores the problematization of absenteeism during the XX century in Argentine, analyzing, from a historical perspective, a series of discourses. After exhuming the conditions that, over the century, made possible both the emergence of absenteeism as a problem, as its decline, it recalls the reflections and interventions that, in the present, referring to absenteeism, in order to show its continuity and discontinuity with those strategies and ways of thinking that in other historical periods, were mobilized in order to govern the relationship between attendance at work, health and productivity.

Keywords : Absenteeism; Work; Productivity; Health.

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