Work social representations by a economically active riverine community of Paraná river

Abstract

As part of an integrated and continuous project about the environmental and human life conditions in a riverine area of Paraná river, the present text summarizes a research process regarding the work social representations carried out by two differentiated groups of the economically active population of Porto Rico City, state of Paraná, Brazil. The study leads to the conclusions that these differences and other psychosocial and economic occupational processes should be taken into future attempts to modify those social conditions.