Ducange Médor

He has a doctorate in Social Sciences from the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (ciesas). He is currently an academic at the University Center for Economic and Administrative Sciences of the University of Guadalajara. He has carried out research on the socioeconomic dynamics of single-parent households, university graduates and labor insertion, self-employed professionals and entrepreneurs and their relationship with work and practices of resistance to salaried work. Her topics of interest are work, education, gender and subjectivation.

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On the margins of the labor society. Resistance to employment and seizure of the future of individuals against work

  • Ducange Médor

Keywords: appropriation of self, grasping the future, dogma of work, uncertainty, resistance to work, work society.

This article documents another way of thinking and dealing with uncertainty and the management of the future from ways of relating to work located “on the fringes” of the work society. It is an empirically constructed investigation based on semi-structured interviews with professionals who resist work and which show that for this category of individuals, uncertainty implies assuming our common vulnerability without much worrying about what may happen tomorrow, and entails an active and autonomous way of appropriation of his life and of revaluation of ways to build solidarity from gratuity. In short, it is a way of materially building life and the future in break with the work-consumer society.