Eradication of rural women workforce in sugar cane fields. Causes and consequences
This study aims to analyze the reasons that rural workers have been gradually excluded from the work of cutting cane in the Brazilian sugarcane agribusiness. As it is known, women have always worked as cane cutters in the plantations of sugar cane in Brazil, but especially from the 2000s onwards, du...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Entreciencias: diálogos en la sociedad del conocimiento |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/62050 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/entreciencias/article/view/62050 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | women cane cutters sugar cane agribusiness in Brazil productive restructuring precariousness exploitation and discrimination. mujeres cortadoras de caña agroindustria de caña de azúcar de Brasil reestructuración productiva precarización explotación y discriminación. |
| Sumario: | This study aims to analyze the reasons that rural workers have been gradually excluded from the work of cutting cane in the Brazilian sugarcane agribusiness. As it is known, women have always worked as cane cutters in the plantations of sugar cane in Brazil, but especially from the 2000s onwards, due to a production restructuring process which took place in the agribusiness, an important part of the female workforce lost their jobs in the sector. As discussed below, the few women who managed to keep their employment in the mills were moved to other jobs, for secondary functions (i.e., less important than the cane cutting), which are the most undervalued and precarious, and therefore, the lowest paid by mills. |
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