Eventuality as a basic rule in agriculture sector in a southern European territory
Abstract
: My main research objective was to analyze how the popular classes adapted to eventuality as basic rules of agriculture work. Based on three cases studies we induce how workers live the temporality inherent in agricultural work. The research was carried out in the Vega Alta del Río Segura (Murcia), a prototypical territory of southern European whose productive model offers jobs in low-productivity sectors. To be able to enter in the interstices of the local labour market, I developed a qualitative research methodology, with 42 interviews in-depth, an ethnographic immersion for several weeks and permanent observation of daily life. The main findings were that eventuality, uncertainty and availability are the basic features that characterize labor relations and this condition the adaptation strategies of the popular classes to the discontinuous wage relationship.
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