El trabajo reproductivo en el medio rural. Puesteras y trabajadoras migrantes del sector agropecuario de Mendoza (Argentina)
El trabajo reproductivo en el medio rural. Puesteras y trabajadoras migrantes del sector agropecuario de Mendoza (Argentina)
Authors
Pessolano, Daniela
Linardelli, María Florencia
Linardelli, María Florencia
Authors
Date
2021
Datos de publicación:
Cultura, Hombre, Sociedad (CUHSO), Vol.31, N°1, 47-76, 2021
Keywords
Mujeres - Reproducción social - Ruralidad - Trabajo agropecuario
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Abstract
El presente artículo se propuso analizar el trabajo reproductivo de-sarrollado en ámbitos rurales de la provincia de Mendoza (Argentina). Para ello recuperamos y comparamos datos empíricos de dos investigaciones cualitativas realizadas entre los años 2012 y 2018, con puesteras y trabajadoras agrícolas migrantes, que nos permitió hallar singularidades en cada caso, pero también aspectos comunes en sus labores reproductivas. Con la finalidad de aportar evidencia empírica para contribuir al debate feminista y/o de género sobre el trabajo de cuidados y doméstico, este escrito se estructura por distintas secciones: la primera describe las características metodológicas básicas de los estudios de referencia; la segunda recupera antecedentes sobre trabajo reproductivo en ámbitos rurales de América Latina; la tercera refiere a algunas características del contexto agropecuario mendocino para luego centrarse en los casos, particularmente en describir y reflexionar sobre las experiencias de trabajo reproductivo de los dos grupos de mujeres estudiados. Las conclusiones, por último, buscan destacar las singularidades que adquiere el trabajo reproductivo en contextos rurales: la porosidad de sus límites con las actividades productivas, la simultaneidad de esta carga de tra-bajo en la vida cotidiana de las trabajadoras y el dinamismo de estas tareas, asociado con la estacionalidad de la producción agropecuaria y los ciclos de la naturaleza.
This article sets out to analyze the reproductive labor carried out in rural areas of Mendoza province, Argentina. To this end, we retrieved and compared empirical data from two qualitative research works conducted between 2012 and 2018 with female goat producers and female migrant farm workers, which allowed us to find singularities in every case, as well as common aspects in their reproductive labors. In order to provide empirical evidence to contribute to the feminist and/or gender debate regarding care and domestic work, this writing is structured by sections; the first one describes basic methodological characteristics of reference studies; the second one recovers antecedents on reproductive work in rural areas of Latin America; the third one refers to some aspects of Mendoza agricultural context and then focuses on the cases, particularly on describing and reflecting on the reproductive labor experiences of both women groups studied. Finally, the conclusions seek to highlight the singularities that repro-ductive labor acquires in rural contexts, the porosity of its boundaries with productive activities, the simultaneity of these burden activities in the daily life of female workers, and the dynamism of said labors associated with agricultu-ral production seasonality and cycles of nature.
This article sets out to analyze the reproductive labor carried out in rural areas of Mendoza province, Argentina. To this end, we retrieved and compared empirical data from two qualitative research works conducted between 2012 and 2018 with female goat producers and female migrant farm workers, which allowed us to find singularities in every case, as well as common aspects in their reproductive labors. In order to provide empirical evidence to contribute to the feminist and/or gender debate regarding care and domestic work, this writing is structured by sections; the first one describes basic methodological characteristics of reference studies; the second one recovers antecedents on reproductive work in rural areas of Latin America; the third one refers to some aspects of Mendoza agricultural context and then focuses on the cases, particularly on describing and reflecting on the reproductive labor experiences of both women groups studied. Finally, the conclusions seek to highlight the singularities that repro-ductive labor acquires in rural contexts, the porosity of its boundaries with productive activities, the simultaneity of these burden activities in the daily life of female workers, and the dynamism of said labors associated with agricultu-ral production seasonality and cycles of nature.