Keywords
young people unionized
discourse analysis
interpretative repertories
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Abstract
This article aims to examine the meanings that, nowadays, young people give to work and unionism. Nine ethnographic interviews with young workers were conducted about their working life as unionized and non-unionized workers. The conceptual framed was composed by a review of the literature related to the following topics: the social construction of young people, the contemporary transformation of work and the history of unionism in Colombia. The research question was addressed by identifying the participant’s interpretative repertories (Potter y Wheterell, 1996). The results show a tension between the repertoires used by young workers according to their position as union or non-union members.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.