"Going out to the world" - work, family and leisure in the representation of the excluded

Abstract

Taking the theoretical presupposition that the dialectic relationship between the three elements which, according to Henri Lefebvre, constitute the quotidian life - work, family and leisure - is a relationship which reveals itself at its negativity, at the world of the social excludeds, and, therefore, only exists through the representations they have built, the aim  of the present study is the analysis of these representations thought the category work, in order to understand its double role, being at the rupture process of the quotidian, as well as, at the possibility of re-establishing it for one group of homeless living in shelters at the city of São Paulo.