Abstract

GARAZI, Débora. Unstable boundaries between ʺproductiveʺ and ʺreproductiveʺ work: The hospitality industry. Trab. soc. [online]. 2017, n.29, pp.431-446. ISSN 1514-6871.

Based on reflections of work in the hotel sector in Mar del Plata city between the '60s and' 80s, in this article we propose to raise a theoretical and conceptual discussion that has strained the traditional categories productive and reproductive work. We start from the idea that the service sector, and especially those that offer benefits linked to the reproduction of life have a particular productivity. We will focs in the ways in which the work has been approached from the Social Sciences and repair on the notions of 'work' that supported these studies. Then, from the analysis of different types of sources we reconstruct some of the features which acquired the work in the hospitality between the decades of '60 and '80 in Mar del Plata. We support the idea that some of the features of this work is approaching the so-called productive work, and others, to reproductive work. Therefore, the interpretation in binary terms contributes to made invisible some characteristics of some of works that combine elements of both and according to the context and the impact of such factors as a space of realization, paid or free character, the beneficiaries or the gender of the worker, are closer to one or the other.

Keywords : Productive work; Reproductive work; Services; Hospitality; Mar del Plata.

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