Occupation and dialectics, an analysis from materialistic dialectic

Abstract

The need to generate knowledge related to the study of occupation within a Latin-Americanc ontext leads to reformulate the focuses and methods currently used for these ends.Furthermore, we consider that Latin American literature is a source of occupational realities, since it has been characterized, in a Worldwide level, for its Strong historical content in its narrations, providing quotidian events which enrich the analysis of occupations in a real context, with elements of our own culture and history.

To approach the complexity of this search, materialistic dialectics is proposed, as anecessary source of development, which allow us to approach not only the complexity of elements in play, but also to understand the processes from the movement and from its historicity.Thus, in the present paper, and as an initial exercise in this complex theme, we make theanalysis of an occupation extracted from a book of 20th Century Chilean literature , we refer to "Hijos del Salitre" (Children of nitrate), from Volodia Telteiboim. In this exercise, diverse aspects of occupation are observed, through dialectic categories, which allow us, atthe first instance, to explore different areas of occupational phenomenon which nowadays were not considered .

Finally, and as a necessary proccess to learning and development of knowledge, we make self-criticisms and self-observations of the same exercise analisys excercise carried out.