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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| 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 |
| 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. |
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