Abstract

BENASSI, Evangelina. "Rescue yourself and work": the value-work in life experiences of young people from popular sectors. Trab. soc. [online]. 2022, vol.23, n.38, pp.357-381.  Epub Jan 01, 2022. ISSN 1514-6871.

In this article I propose that the meaning that work has for young people from popular sectors is built in tension with other dimensions of their life experiences. Thus, I argue that young people assign a value to work, as it constitutes a rescue possibility, allowing them to differentiate themselves from other available circuits in the territory, which reinforce them in a position of social stigma. The identification with the figure of being a worker means, for young people, to transcend neighborhood boundaries and build a position of social validation, and in this sense, work operates for young people as a moral value from which they build positions of honor and respect, that allow them to dispute a place in terms of prestige, both in their own territory and outside it. Starting from this premise, I recover two dimensions in the configuration of work as a rescue: the use of "productive" time and the intergenerational transmission of know-how in which that work-value is transmitted. Thus, for young people, work becomes an access key to the possibility of safeguarding self-love, but also of legitimizing their own practices in front of others.

Keywords : young; work; honor; circuits; territory; rescue.

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