Rural work among rural adults and young wage earners in Uruguay
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In the last ten years in the Latin American South Cone including Uruguay, important investments have been made in the agricultural sector by global agrifood corporations are highlighted in soy, forestry, minerals, sugar cane, meat, etc. The reconfiguration of the rural social space has been developed in different dimensions of analysis, one of which is the labor market. In this regard, it is proposed to analyze the main characteristics of the rural employment market, social conditions of rural employees through the categories of R. Kaztman and four dimensions of decent employment: socioeconomic context, employment opportunity, social security and monetary income, such analysis is carried out transversally from the generations approach. The data would indicate social conditions of inequality and inequality in work according to the generational group of the employee. The analysis by means of the generational dimension points to it, forming a “node” in the configuration of social inequality in rural society.
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