Sentidos do trabalho: possibilidades de diálogos entre Estelle Morin e Ricardo Antunes?

Abstract

The objective of this article is to historically situate the theme “meanings of work”, building a theoretical synthesis and presenting how its epistemological construction took place based on two prominent authors in Brazil: Estelle Morin and Ricardo Antunes. Some researchers have used these references as complementary. The question is: is it possible to build a dialogue between the epistemological matrices in which the two authors are inserted? For this discussion, we used the thesis of the incommensurability of paradigms, by Burrell and Morgan (1979) and the Circle of Epistemic Matrices, by Paes de Paula (2016). The dialogue between these authors is epistemologically incoherent due to the impossibility of reconciling the cognitive interests of each epistemic matrix that the author and the author build their approaches to the meanings of the work. In this sense, it avoids misinterpretations and inconsistent propositions of dialogues between them, which represents an important guideline for conducting future research.