For a Geography of the work! (A Preliminary Reflections)

Abstract

Ontologically prisoner of the society, the work, in all its dimensions, is the founding base of the auto-development of the material and spiritual life. The Geography of the Work puts itself in scene, to answer the questions regarding the reality. Thus, if there is no difference relating the object, it is in the action of the subject that the attentions turned to. That is, in its geographical expression the work can be understood either at the level of the metabolic relationship men-environment, or in the dimension of the space-society regulation, in its different manifestations (wage-earner, autonomous worker, informal, domiciliary, third part, etc). This implies, then, necessarily, in the discussion about the locations, which are not limited immediately to the visible. The base categories of Geography (environment, territory and space) will to the necessary mediations, attending the challenges put by the subject, which in a continuous effort of theorization to the concretization of a Geography of the Work.