"Es un sube y baja": percepciones en torno a los trabajos de mujeres cuentapropistas de la ciudad de Rafaela (Santa Fe) en el siglo XXI

Abstract

This article is inscribed in the interrelation between social policies and the world of work, from a Sociology of Bodies / Emotions. The objective is to investigate the perceptions and practices related to the work carried out by self-employed women. Self-employment has shown percentage growth in the region (particularly important in Argentina), with precariousness in living conditions, especially women, being a binding element. The State's social interventions have intercepted the field of self-employment, being a "gateway" to it a series of social policies aimed at "entrepreneurial" people. The crossroads between social policies, women and the labor market have as a background an upward trend in self-employment that crosses the Latin American economies in general terms, and that is reflected in the city of Rafaela in an important way by the incorporation of women into this type of occupation. In a double presence context, self-employment in its "flexibility" appears as an option for an increasing number of women. Hence, in this article, practices and perceptions regarding work in the aforementioned scenario are questioned.