Significados do Dinheiro e do Trabalho: Um Estudo com Operários da Construção de Edificações de Belo Horizonte

The meanings of money and work are multidimensional phenomena imbued with contradictory aspects that are forged in the contemporary context of the capitalist system. Then, weaimed to explore the relationship between the phenomena in the construction of buildings. We developed the research with 302 workers applying questionnaires and interviews. To the answers of questionnaires, we were applied descriptive (frequency and mean) and inferential (cluster analysis and ANOVA) statistics techniques. The interpretation of interviews supports an understanding of antecedents analysis. Among the results, the followers made salient: the collectivist values incorporated in the pattern ofmoney meanings (PMM); the tendency from participants of Indifferent Expressive pattern of work meaning (PWM) to present Expressive Collectivist PMM; and from participants with Optimist PWM presenting less frequently the Conflicting PMM.