Aceder ao trabalho e competências: um estudo entre um grupo de pescadores sazonais na zona dos Pescadores, Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This research analyzes the relationship between access to work and the creation of competence for the same. From the analyzed literature, I identified three approaches. The first approach argues that access to work is conditioned by a qualification and competence prior to commencing work. The second approach argues that the work is accessed through kinship, including by people without skills for that purpose and the third approach argues that work is accessed through the combination of competence and kinship, competence, which precedes access to work. The aforementioned literature, on the one hand, allows us to understand the use of qualification, kinship and the combination of the two as work access strategies, on the other hand side loses sight of other arrangements used to access work and develop Skills. In view of these limitations, I carried out an ethnographic research among a group of fishermen in the fishermen's zone. Based on the ethnographic material, I show that individuals access work via of bonds of friendship or kinship, created on a daily basis and that apprehend the perform the activities in which they are inserted while working. Differently literature that argues that access to work is conditioned by the possession of competence, kinship networks or a combination of both, and that competence is acquired before entering the work sector, the data of the present project make it possible to understand the possibility of acquiring competence after accessing the work. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)