ABSTRACT
Using the long-term ethnographic work I have been conducting with two precarious and marginalized urban works in which urban public space is central (waste collectors and ambulant vendors) in Buenos Aires, the chapter will deal with the modes in which social inequalities are produced. The text will be centered in three main issues: the necessity of precarious and marginalized works of constructing and maintaining social relations with other actors and the necessity of justifying their presence; the relational perspective and the temporalities of the different inequalities of the constitution of inequalities; and the importance of ethnography as a methodological tool and as a perspective for the understanding of these processes.
Thus, from the cases and recovering Latin American theoretical and conceptual tradition I will develop theoretical and methodological reflections related to the analysis of precarious activities developed in the public space.
