La categoría trabajo en construcción: Componentes socio:históricos y culturales desde la perspectiva de los pequeños productores rurales de Picada Santa Rosa del Municipio Dos Arroyos, Misiones, Argentina

In this paper it is analyzed how the category ‘work’ is built in a specific social space: Santa Rosa village, which pertains to the municipality of Dos Arroyos, department of L. N. Alem, province of Misiones, Argentina. It aims at reconstructing this notion from the point of view of local small farmers and at identifying which elements take part in the configuration of its diverse and changing meaning, including those emerging factors as current state politics. These objectives were addressed thought anthropological fieldwork, which included interviews and participant observation from November 2011 to April 2014. This fieldwork allowed identifying the local social space, the social agents living there, their livelihood strategies, the relationships that exist among them and the way in which they symbolize their lifeworlds and the feelings of sadness and happiness they experience. Thus, the complex and entangled social relationships related to agrarian production were described. Within that social space, in the context of survival strategies and social relationships aiming at satisfying the material and symbolic needs of the small farmers’ lifeworlds, diverse meanings relating to what ‘work’ means are constructed. All in all, in this paper I describe the meanings relating to ‘work’ and how they are translated into social practice.