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This article analyzes the ways in which the concept and social meanings of work are being resolved by sectors of the working class which are disaffiliated from the salary relationship within popular economy policies. Specifically, it shows the value of photographs as a creative resource to sustain said disputes as well as evincing – through the reconstruction of the context of production of photographs– the centrality that a series of care practices and collective forms of reproduction of life have which are fundamental to a broader understanding about work. This analysis is based on the dialogue between three ethnographic investigations carried out in Argentina between 2014 and 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the findings of an ethnographic research, this paper proposes to analyze the labor trajectories in “informal” garment workshops of Peruvian migrants who live in territories of urban relegation of Cordoba (Argentina), regarding their strategies to access the city and family reproduction. Moreover, it explores the community practices, as resources of local organization intended for self-management, mobilized in neighborhoods in connection with the development of garment workshops. This study shows how some processes that exceed migration itself –such as presence/absence (selective) of the State in urban spaces, informal labor networks and difficulties to access housing– are related to mobility and labor insertions, making it possible and stimulating the existence and proliferation of informal garment workshops in specific places of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]