Labour project, workers' project

Authors

  • Michel Agier Orstom - Office de la recherche scientifique et technique outre-mer
  • Nadya Araújo Castro Universidade Federal da Bahia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.1993.111392

Keywords:

worker, industrial labour, social trajectories, family

Abstract

The authors discuss the life histories of some petroleum and petrochemical workers in Bahia, Brazil. They selected workers with different professional status and with different relation to the labor movement and reconstructed their family, professional and residential trajectories. The analysis is focused on three main questions: (i) how personal trajectories evolve in contexts of intense social mobility ; (ii) which are the different ways of entering the industrial world ; and (iii) which of their personal dispositions can explain their choice of an individual or a collective project as they organize their life trajectories.

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Published

1993-12-17

Issue

Vol. 36 (1993)

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How to Cite

Agier, M., & Castro, N. A. (1993). Labour project, workers’ project. Revista De Antropologia, 36, 137-176. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.1993.111392