Rural women and paid work: the case of female day workers in Mexico

The re-structuring of the economy worldwide has made Mexican agriculture a provider of certain non-traditional products, one of whose principal features is that they employ female labor. Fruit and vegetable production affords rural women the possibility of joining the labor market albeit in extremel...

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Autor: Martínez Medina, María Concepción
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Problemas del Desarrollo. Revista Latinoamericana de Economía
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/29166
Acceso en línea:https://www.probdes.iiec.unam.mx/index.php/pde/article/view/29166
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mujeres rurales
trabajo asalariado
jornaleras
obreras agrícolas
México
agricultura
agroexportación
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Sumario:The re-structuring of the economy worldwide has made Mexican agriculture a provider of certain non-traditional products, one of whose principal features is that they employ female labor. Fruit and vegetable production affords rural women the possibility of joining the labor market albeit in extremely precarious conditions. However, the option of going outside the home to obtain an income may represent the start of a change in the social relations within the family which place them in a sexual and intergenerational position of subordination.