Os sentidos do auto-emprego nos pequenos negócios familiares geradores de renda

AUTOR(ES)
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The present work consists in a qualitative study on common brazilian workers that, taken by the unemployment circumstances produced by productive restructuration, turned themselves into owners of small family businesses that generate income. It also can be described as a study on how different people build their daily survival, constituting themselves. It is a study which intends to clarify the way these people live and survive, mostly of them ruled by the state of poverty. From a discussion on the knowledge, the present study aimed at identifying the meanings of self-employment in small family businesses that generate income, found in the narratives of the study participants and in the field-theme. By field-theme, comprehending everything that refers to a subject, a debate without limits or boundaries. In this field emerged themes like: self-employment, microcredit, entrepreneurship, family businesses and popular economy, which together built a fruitful field of discussion and construction of knowledge. Oral history was used to include in the debate the knowledge and life experience of the five interviewees, whose narratives were submitted to the method of discourse analysis. The problems that conducted the study concern the possibility of an ecology of knowledge on the understanding of the meanings of family self-employment, analyzing ideological processes presents in the field and possibilities of emancipation. By ecology of knowledge, comprehending a system of knowledge from different origins, not just scientific, which coexist on the construction of a different society, its a term used by Boaventura de Souza Santos. The identification of the meanings of family self-employment by the voices of those present in the field allowed questioning the general notion linked to entrepreneurship. Concluding that the term entrepreneurship is used as a government strategy to keep the status quo and avoid social conflicts, by spreading that the solution for unemployment is to become an entrepreneur. This speech prioritizes the individualism and must be elucidated, so when people choose self-employment, they do it consciously, as a possible life strategy, not deluded by the speech of being your own boss as an opportunity of success

ASSUNTO(S)

self-employment psicologia social small family businesses pequenas e medias empresas auto-emprego quotidian sociologia do cotidiano empresas domiciliares pequenos négocios familiares trabalhadores autonomos cotidianos

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