Obras, casas e contas: uma etnografia de problemas domésticos de trabalhadores urbanos no Rio de Janeiro.

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Marcella Carvalho de Araujo
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15528
• topic: Urban construction; Social Housing; House; Community Work; Money; Domestic Problems; Obras urbanas; Habitação social; Casa; Trabalho social; Dinheiro; Problemas domésticos; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::SOCIOLOGIA URBANA

This thesis examines daily economic practices of an urban workers family. In middle 2015, the couple Gê and Oliveira began looking into the reasons why their professional networks were failing. For the previous twenty years, they had been working as community worker and subcontractor for housing programs. The problem to find jobs turned out to be twofold: problems to make a living came along with problems to make ends meet. How could they fulfill their moral obligations with a set of houses they had helped to build and support? Exploring the reflexivity peculiar to these critical moments, first, I rebuilt the configuration of houses linking moral obligations and economic practices for Gê and Oliveira. Striving to break the opposition between house studies, on the one hand, and work studies, on the other, I have coined the domestic problems which are problems to make a living and to make ends meet at the same time as valuable sociological objects to the understanding of the everyday life of urban workers. Secondly, I examined how the family differentiated, earmarked and managed their multiple monies, grasping specific forms of money flow and moral evaluations. In the third place, I explored the paperwork, provision of accounts and social reports the couple had to handle in the exercise of their occupations. The understanding of how the paperwork regulated the money flows within the house and between it and labor markets helped me outline the boundaries, the modes of circulation of people, objects and monies, specific exchange operations and the shared meanings of social relations in the urban construction circuit , in Rio de Janeiro.