From harvest workers to day laborers: (in)visible behind the numbers
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https://doi.org/10.36920/esa-v30-2_05Keywords:
wage workers, dynamic of the agricultural labor market, working timeAbstract
This article discusses the evolution of workers into day laborers over the past ten years, a period in which a series of transformations occurred in social and agricultural production in Uruguay. Data from Continuous Household Surveys conducted by the National Institute of Statistics from 2010 to 2018 indicated that the rural labor market was grouped as well as dispersed. Some characteristics emerged, such as male gender (despite significant growth among women), greater formal education, increased job insecurity, less working time in terms of weekly hours but stability throughout the annual production year, and spatial concentration in the coastal territories bordering Argentina and to the south in the metropolitan area of the country's capital where intensive farm production can be seen.
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