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Ibáñez Schuda, S.
Labour seen by young Chileans. An analysis of the social representations of popular urban youths

Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO, 2005
134p.

Includes bibliography

 

(Full text only available in Spanish)

 

The labour subculture of this segment of the young population is approached by their social representation of work. The idea is getting to know the image they build up and the way in which these images generate favourable or less favourable frames of mind into labour insertion. All this is considered within the context of deep social and cultural changes that took place in our country during the last twenty five years.

The study intends to prove the importance of the schooling path and the socio-economic situation of the family on the representations of work, and labour and social insertion strategies drawn up by young people. The different possible combinations among such variables will offer different types of representations and several insertion and labour insertion strategies. Nevertheless, the evidence that supports this study indicates that work keeps playing a key role in the process of building up an individual and social identity. This approach to the labour subculture of a group which is usually considered as homogeneous -though it is not in practice- can be an element that promotes the definition of a menu of policies that ensure higher social relevance of the initiatives that are created at a State level, contributing, at the same time, to the improvement of their results.

 

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1
BACKGROUND
1. Transformations geared by the military regime
2. Juvenile labour insertion as the objective of public policies Chile Joven
3. The context of the nineties: modernisation and expansion of the tax extension to sectors of urban poverty

Chapter 2
REVISION OF SOME CONCEPTS
1. Social representations
2. Labour and its social representation in the Western world

Chapter 3
SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF LABOUR OF POPULAR URBAN YOUTH
1. Methodological approximation
2. Labour as an adverse situation
3. The importance of schooling path and the socio-economic situation of the family in the project of labour insertion
3.1. The strategy of learning by doing or learning at work
3.2. The meritocratic strategy: the search of a profession by studying
4. Representation of work
4.1. Important dimensions that express the sense of work
4.2. Types of work
4.3. Redundancy and absence of work

Chapter 4
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
1. Representation of work and representation of what is juvenile
1.1. Representation of work and representation of the youth
1.2. Project of social insertion and representation of labour market
2. The persistence of the importance of work
3. Thinking about public policies

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ANNEXES
Annex 1. Notes about the qualitative sample and the employed discourse analysis technique
Annex 2. Notes about the quantitative sample and the employed data analysis technique

 

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