Abstract
Starting in the last decades of the 20th century, deep transformations have occurred in Latin American agricultural work, with decisive impacts on workers' health. These processes have had specific implications for female agricultural workers, who face the precarious working conditions common to all agricultural workers as well as inequalities that affect them distinctly. This article seeks to analyze the productive and reproductive work of migrant female farmworkers residing in Mendoza (Argentina), in order to elucidate the impact of this double workload on their health-disease processes. Fieldwork was carried out in 2014 in the agricultural town of Ugarteche, Luján de Cuyo, using a qualitative method supported primarily in a biographical approach. With the collaboration of feminist theoretical tools, we analyzed the relation between work and health based on the way these processes are narrated by migrant women. The results show that the work processes impacting their health include both employment and reproductive labor, and describe the harm, diseases, and illnesses linked to combined work in farms, factories and homes.
Highlights
Starting in the last decades of the 20th century, deep transformations have occurred in Latin American agricultural work, with decisive impacts on workers’ health
Las migrantes que se desempeñan como asalariadas rurales en Mendoza, a la par de largas jornadas de trabajo en el campo, en sus hogares son las responsables principales de las tareas de reproducción cotidiana y del cuidado de sus grupos de pertenencia
Este aspecto es significativo porque pocas veces se pone en consideración el malestar emocional que puede asociarse a las tareas de cuidado, que son investidas con el carácter de obligación moral, y se oculta el impacto de este trabajo en la salud de quien lo asume[2]: Cuando [mi madre] tuvo esa anemia estuvimos como diez días internadas las dos ahí [...] Les dije a mis hermanos si me podían reemplazar un día, porque necesitaba venir a bañarme, cambiarme de ropa
Summary
Starting in the last decades of the 20th century, deep transformations have occurred in Latin American agricultural work, with decisive impacts on workers’ health.
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