Abstract

SALAZAR, Isabel Margarita NÚÑEZ. Displacing boundaries: theoretical approaches to a comprehension of total labour in Chile. Trab. soc. [online]. 2019, n.33, pp.281-290. ISSN 1514-6871.

This paper aims to problematize the concept of labour from diverse theoretical perspectives. Incorporating the total social organization of labour’s analysis, the article revise the principal debates by which has been criticised the comprehension of labour from an employment’s perspective. On the contrary, the article invite to a deeply reflexion on some new ways of understanding the total labour and focalising its interest in bargaining new theoretical perspectives which has been opening possibilities for innovative and complex comprehension of labour. The categories of social reproduction, gender perspective and housework are the main articulators of the reflexion.

Keywords : Labour; care; housework; reproductive work; time.

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