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Towards Diversified Ways to Promote Decent Working Trajectories: A Life and Career Design Proposal for Informal Workers

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How to ensure decent work in contexts predominantly marked by the informal economy? This poses a dilemma: should we seek the creation of decent work in the informal economy or the elimination of informality for decent job? We believe in the idea of creating decent working trajectories in the informal working. Thus, based on researches and practices systematically developed in recent decades in Brazil and Latin America, we present and discuss a career guidance and counseling proposal towards the promotion of decent work for informal workers, by a produced knowledge that articulates Northern epistemologies, inspired in the life design paradigm and grounded on a social constructionist perspective, with theories contextualized in the South.

This chapter has been supported by CNPq – Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brasil (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development-Brazil) by means of a regular research grant (308786/2013-0).

The study case was made by the chapter author, and the career counseling was held by Janaína Francine Mendonça Ribeiro at the Career Counselling Service of the Psychology Institute of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

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Ribeiro, M.A. (2018). Towards Diversified Ways to Promote Decent Working Trajectories: A Life and Career Design Proposal for Informal Workers. In: Cohen-Scali, V., et al. Interventions in Career Design and Education . Lifelong Learning Book Series, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91968-3_8

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