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Abstract

The family and work: precariousness and pauperism in the Greater São Paulo area. Based on data from 1981 and establishing as empirical reference the occurrence of crisis and unemployment in the first halt of the 80s, this article analyses the conditions of insertion of men and women, adults and youth in the job market. Emphasizing the discrimination of sex and age prevalent in this market, the objective is to show that although precariousness and vulnerability in working conditions is a predominant situation, it especially touches women and youth. This question is, however, analyzed from the angle of the family, that is, the impact of this discrimination upon family space. In other words, what is of Interest in this article is to make explicit the relationship between the job market and the family/y which is crucial for understanding the process of pauperization of urban populations. The main argument developed is: if it is true that survival of urban workers depends on a collective undertaking articulated in family space by means of the mobilization of its various members in the job market, it seems to be the very importance of the family Itself that makes explicit the fragile equilibrium in which the conditions of family life are structured. And it is this which permits saying that poverty has to do with precariousness inscribed in forms of family life. This precariousness translates the exclusion rules which structure social life and it is that which produces the measure of order of inequalities and exclusion proper to Brazilian society. It is this precariousness which this article deals with and it is by means of it that there is an atteanmpt to show that the question of (non) rights is central to the peciliar way by which the relationship between family/y and job market is brought about.