Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Eveline Nogueira Pinheiro de; AQUINO, Cássio Adriano Braz de  and  ADRIANO, Lia Silveira. The Use of Self-Referenced Interviews in Investigating Occupational Trajectories of Street Food Workers. NTQR [online]. 2023, vol.18, e869.  Epub Nov 30, 2023. ISSN 2184-7770.  https://doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.18.2023.e869.

Introduction: The world of contemporary work encompasses new types of alternative work in the Brazilian scenario, in which informality and entrepreneurship stand out as marks of the way of work organization. Objectives: to understand and analyze occupational trajectories of street food workers. Methods: This work is the result of a broader research path that seeks to understand some of the most recent movements of capitalism: job insecurity, entrepreneurship, flexibility and the incorporation of informality in new ways of life. It is produced from a bias of studies on work and the Social Psychology of Work (PST). In a study of longitudinal inspiration, interviews already carried out with street food workers in 2017, carried out in the course of a previous investigation, were carried out. Considering the speed with which work has been transformed and the pandemic crisis that is developing, it was questioned how the working life of those same workers interviewed at the time would be organized. In this sense, self-referenced interviews were carried out: the objective was to go in search of these subjects again and remember the interview carried out previously to understand the work trajectories in that time interval. Results: The analysis of working life trajectories, based on the analytical bias of occupational trajectories, served to understand a broader movement in the life history of these workers: what could be called an entrepreneurial movement, which translates into precariousness and volatility in the reality of workers. Conclusions: What seems understandable is that conditions were created for an expansion of the reference to entrepreneurship as a policy to confront a fragile State in the management of the capital-work relationship and as a mechanism for the dissemination of individualism and precariousness spread in the labor sphere.

Keywords : Working Conditions; Informality; Entrepreneurship; Work trajectory; Street food.

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