Work trajectories of Paraguayans in Buenos Aires. Work at whatever, manage on their own

Abstract

Informal and precarious work is the rule that demarcates the labor trajectories of Paraguayan men and women, who are left with the trades and the deployment of their own capacities as the only resources to draw on to survive day by day, mitigating the effects economic that these meager working conditions cause in them and their families. Against this background, this thesis seeks to investigate the way in which Paraguayan men and women who live in the suburbs of Buenos Aires face these problematic situations. In order to achieve this task, the focus will be on three topics: first, on the labor trajectories and their constitutive characteristics; second, in situations that are perceived as a problem by the same actors; and third, in the skills and critical actions that they carry out as singular and collective strategies to face these conflictive realities.