THE PRECARIOUS PRESENT: Wageless Labor and Disrupted Life in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
THE PRECARIOUS PRESENT: Wageless Labor and Disrupted Life in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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不稳定的现状：巴西里约热内卢的无薪劳动和被破坏的生活
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2014
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Kathleen M. Millar
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作者：
Kathleen M. Millar
本文探讨了巴西里约热内卢城市贫民生活中作为一种劳动条件的不稳定与作为一种本体论经验的不稳定之间的关系。焦点是该市郊区的一个垃圾场，成千上万的里约穷人（被称为垃圾收集者）在那里以回收可回收物为生。通过关注这些工人离开垃圾场去其他工作然后返回的循环时刻，我探讨了里约周边地区的日常紧急情况如何经常与常规工资劳动就业的严格条件发生冲突。这些捕捞者的来来往往是对“真正”工作的渴望与对我所说的关系自主权的渴望之间的紧张关系造成的，而关系自主权是在无工资工作的条件下成为可能的。本文探讨了南半球资本主义的具体历史和经验如何不同地塑造了不稳定的劳动与不稳定的生活的结合。最后，我认为，垃圾收集者返回垃圾场并不意味着里约穷人的终结，而是构成了一种超然的政治，使生活能够在脆弱的时期生活。
This article explores the relationship between precarity as a labor condition and precarity as an ontological experience in the lives of urban poor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The focus is on a garbage dump on the outskirts of the city where thousands of Rio’s poor, known as catadores, reclaim recyclables for a living. Attending to cyclic moments in which these workers leave the dump for other jobs and then return, I explore how everyday emergencies in Rio’s periphery often clash with the rigid conditions of regular, wage-labor employment. These comings and goings of catadores result from a tension between the desire for “real” work and the desire for what I describe as relational autonomy, made possible by the conditions of wageless work. The article considers how specific histories and experiences of capitalism in the global South differentially shape the articulation of precarious labor with precarious life. I conclude by suggesting that the returns of catadores to the dump do not signal an end for Rio’s poor, but rather constitute a politics of detachment that enables life to be lived in fragile times.