Representaciones de la vida social: el mito del trabajo

Abstract

Work, understood as human activity aimed at producing goods and services for the market, is one of modernity’s most emblematic concepts. This paper analyses the notion of work from classical antiquity to the present, showing how a new social myth founded on work began to take shape through a productive and economist idea of human activity, keyed to a supposed rationale that ultimately ignores the problem of livelihood and social equality. The article concludes with thoughts on the normative dimension of the work of social scientists.