Tensiones y heterogeneidades temporales en la desocupación

Abstract

The lack of paid work has deep consequences on the time lived by people. Work is timeconsuming; it structures the working day development, imposes limitations on other activities and it leaves a strong mark on our daily life. Unemployment not only leads to free time but also gives way mainly to a destabilization of the reference time. However, the unemployed time is also a time for definition and prescriptions which tend to impose a specific form on the unemployment experience. From this on, it is possible to consider that unemployment cannot be dissociated from a temporary perspective. In this sense, this article explores the temporary ordering of the instrumental activities in a group of unemployed people helped by the State in the city of Rosario. Thus, we consider instrumental activities as those which, having the production and reproduction of material conditions that make possible the survival of the species as content and function, are characterized by being socially heteronomous. They are the result of a social division of work which is explained in complex lines of differentiation and inequality. Among them two groups are analyzed: the first is the one made up by paid work, remunerated activities and studies; and the second consists of domestic and family work as well as voluntary work.