Workers In Peru Research Articles

Muchachas No More: Household Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Introduction Part I: Domestic Service Yesterday 1. A History of Domestic Service in Spanish America, 149 2-1980 - Elizabeth Kuznesof 2. Domestic Service in Jamaica Since 1750 - B.W. Higman 3. Servants and Masters in Rio de Janeiro: Perceptions of House and Street in the 1870s - Sandra Lauderdale Graham Part II: Domestic Service Today 4. Domestic Workers in Buenos Aires - Monica Gogna 5. What Is Bought and What Is Sold in Domestic Service? The Case of Bogota - May Garcia Castro 6. Where is Maria Now? Former Domestic Workers in Peru - Margo Lane Smith 7. Domestic Service in the Latin American Fotonovela - Cornelia Butler Flora 8. Domestic Workers in the Caribbean - Patricia Mohammed 9. a Little Respect: West Indian Domestic Workers in New York City - Shellee Colen Part III: Questions for Feminism 10. Household Workers in the Dominican Republic: A Question for the Feminist Movement - Isis Duarte 11. Politics and Programs of Domestic Workers' Organizations in Mexico - May Goldsmith 12. Feminists and Domestic Workers in Rio de Janeiro - Hildete Pereira de Melo Part IV: Organization and the State 13. Organizations for Low-Income Women in Montevideo: Reenforcing Marginality? - Suzana Prates 14. Household Workers in Peru: The Difficult Road to Organization - Thea Schellekens and Anja van der Schoot 15. Housework for Pay in Chile: Not Just Another Job - Thelma Galvez and Rosalba Todaro 16. Domestic Labor and Domestic Service in Colombia - Magdalena Leon 17. Sharpening the Class Struggle: The Education of Domestic Workers in Cuba - Elena Gil Izquierdo Part V: In Their Own Words 18. Domestic Workers in Rio de Janeiro: Their Struggle to Organize - Anazir Maria de Oliveira and Odete Maria da Conceicao with Hildete Pereira de Melo 19. The History of Our Struggle - SINTRASEDOM (National Union of Household Workers, Colombia) 20. The Autobiography of a Fighter (Peru) - Adelinda Diaz de Uriarte 21. History of the Household Workers' Movement in Chile, 1926-1983 - Aida Moreno Valenzuela 22. In Their Own Words - compiled by Mary Garcia Castro 23. Domestic Service in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Computerized Data Base - Margo L. Smith

Human T cell lymphotropic virus type I infection among female sex workers in Peru.

Four hundred female sex workers attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic in Lima, Peru, were interviewed for demographic information and medical, contraceptive, and sexual practice histories. Cervical cultures were done for Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis, and serum was tested for antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus, human T cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I), Treponema pallidum, C. trachomatis, herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), and Haemophilus ducreyi. The prevalence of HTLV-I increased with duration of prostitution from 3.6% (< 3 years) to 9.3% (3-6 years) to 15.9% (> 6 years; P < .01). After adjustment for duration of prostitution, reduced risk of HTLV-I was significantly correlated with condom use for more than half of all sexual exposures for > 3 years (odds ratio [OR], 0.34; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.13-0.89). Further adjusting for condom use, HTLV-I seropositivity was associated with C. trachomatis (OR, 3.7; 95% CI, 1.4-13.2) and with antibody to HSV-2 (OR, 3.7; 95% CI, 0.5-29.6). Thus, duration of prostitution, lack of consistent condom use, and past infection with C. trachomatis were significantly associated with HTLV-I seropositivity.

A simple economic model of cocaine production

This paper presents a simple equilibrium model of the cocaine industry in Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia (PBC). The purpose of the model is to represent the fundamental economic relations that determine the size of cocaine output, and to simulate the effects on the production sector of policy initiatives or other changes in the surrounding environment. Model results include: “Crop substitution” programs will have a neglible impact on the world cocaine market. Cocaine supply control strategies that seize and destroy 70% or less of production, without limiting the total level of production, will have little impact on the market. Changes in the size of the world cocaine market have a relatively modest long-run impact on the standard of living of average workers in Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia. The results of this study are insensitive to the data uncertainties concerning the cocaine market.

Labor market outcomes of non-formal training for male and female workers in Peru

This paper attempts to measure the effect of non-formal training on the employment and earnings of Peruvian male and female workers. The main findings are: (i) workers with limited educational attainment face limited training opportunities; (ii) training significantly improves the employment probabilities, but not the earnings, of private-sector employed or self-employed women; (iii) while training does not affect the employment probabilities of men, it affects significantly wage gains of those employed in the private sector and; (iv) regardless of gender, training does not increase the earnings of self-employed workers.

Blue-Collar Workers in Peru

Blue-Collar Workers in Peru

Blue-Collar Workers in Peru

Blue-Collar Workers in Peru