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PAIVA, Juliana Cavalcante Marinho; BENDASSOLLI, Pedro Fernando  y  TORRES, Camila Costa. Sense and meanings of work: the impediments and the job possibilities for people with disabilities. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2015, vol.15, n.1, pp.218-239. ISSN 1808-4281.

The objective of this study was to understand the relationship between people with disabilities and their labor. Senses and meanings related to work were specifically identified; also describing the impediments of concrete activities, as well the strategies developed for overcoming them. This objective is inspired on the social historic theoretical perspective as well as on the activity's theory, specifically in the activity clinic approach. The research has been made possible through the interview of 16 workers from a IES, it categorizes as a multi-method sequential and transversal study of qualitative orientation, making use of technics of narrative interviews and photographic creation. The results indicate that work was described as a necessity, a source of pleasure, recognition and socialization. Impediments were more deeply related to the physical conditions of the work environment than to the person's disabilities. Conclusion points out that the access to work, acts as a social inclusion tool for peoples with disabilities, and showing that, the laws regarding quota reservations fulfill their objective.

Palabras clave : work; disabilities; quota.

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