Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Villulla, Juan Manuel
Crovetto, María Marcela
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1901-2000
Idioma
spa
Extent
318 p.
Derechos
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Formato
application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
1001160
Buenos Aires (province)
1901-2000
Abstract
This doctoral thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of the characteristics and recent changes in the work and life of beef cattle employees in the province of Buenos Aires within a framework of productive transformations occurring in the 21st century that, through intensification, give rise to a "new livestock farming". On this basis, we aimed to address these changes by focusing on the wage workers and their experiences in specific wage relations. To this end, we started from a perspective that considers the predominance of capitalist production in Buenos Aires cattle ranching, proposing an approach where, on the one hand, wage relations imply economic exploitation and the subordination of workers, and on the other, work is not limited to the exchange of labour power, but conditions and shapes ways of life. Based on a triangulation of semi-structured interviews and official statistics, it was proposed to examine the features and transformations of working conditions and the organization of labour in the process of productive intensifications, linking technological changes with modifications in wage relations and life outside of work obligations. In concrete terms, we started with an analysis of the sectoral evolution of wages, employment, and workers' residence, then advanced to the characteristics, breaks, and continuities regarding the social and technical organization of work within the farms; working conditions in terms of working hours and various compensations; the specific dynamics of the livestock labour market; forms of subordination and conflict; and the changes in the relationship between life and work. This journey allowed us to account for three major trends. On the one hand, intensification implies greater exploitation and subordination of labour by capital, manifested in the increase in labour intensity as well as in the loss of workers' autonomy. On the other hand, the standardization of production corresponds to a normalization of wage relations to the detriment of personalized ties and arrangements. Finally, rural depopulation and changes in the sector tend to disarticulate livestock work from rural ways of life and culture. In general, the observed productive changes tend to disarticulate of the trade and way of life of livestock workers, the gauchos who persisted until the 21st century.
Título obtenido
Doctor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
