Introduction to the analysis of labor and everyday life

Abstract

This article presents the introduction to the research and to the later articles. It deals with the concerns and the problems that form the basis for the research, that is to say, the need to go beyond sectorial analysis in the fields of production, reproduction and free time in order to account for social facts arising from the relation between them and to offer a view of each one. It establishes the objectives of the research and the theoretical frameworks of reference, specifically the perspective of daily life and the theories that link production and reproduction as well as the phases, levels of processing, major methodological guidelines and techniques used. This paper is part of a research work whose results are in this PAPERS volume. The paper is autonomous but the reading of the other papers of this volum can help to contextualize it.