Open AccessLabour project, workers' project
Author(s) -
Michel Agier,
Nádya Araújo Castro
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
revista de antropologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1678-9857
pISSN - 0034-7701
DOI - 10.11606/2179-0892.ra.1993.111392
Subject(s) - personal life , relation (database) , sociology , social life , political science , social science , law , computer science , database
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.