Sueño de pibe… De oficios, clasificaciones y distinciones en Villa Sangre y Sol (Córdoba, Argentina)

Abstract

In the context of labor market transformations whose imprint was deepened in Argentina in the nineties, with high rates of unemployment and the rise in the price of materials such as cardboard, large number of individuals turned to the “cartoneo” and collecting garbage in the streets. These processes led to a series of disputes of meaning by forms of classification of crafts and persons.This article analyzes the prospects of the “carreros” from “Villa Sangre y Sol” around his occupation and the ways in which it regulates, in different contexts, social relations and symbolic space, dividing the village in at least two sectors.From an ethnographic look, seeks more complex the common sense budgets associated with impoverished sectors, particularly those related to work. It also distorts the assumption that this problem has been recently introduced in our society, since the categories that designate the activities of traditional “carreros”, new “carreros”, “cartoneros” and “cirujas” fluctuate putting in tension currents issues as well as socio-historical frameworks.

Keywords

• Crafts
• “carreros”
• distinctions
• work
• relationships