Fruit warehouses, COVID-19 pandemic and women workers in La Ribera del Xúquer (Valencia, Spain)
Abstract
This article discusses work in the fruit warehouses of Ribera del Xúquer, an area representative of other agro-export areas of the Valencian Community, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences for the workers, the great majority of whom were women. Our results, based on fieldwork and qualitative methodology, show that although the norms and work space were common, the women workers most affected in terms of risk, precariousness and life insecurity, are temporary agency workers, with a clear overrepresentation of immigrant women. Our research shows the relationship between risk and neoliberal work organization and how inequalities in the division of labour and social inequalities, in terms of class, gender and ethnicity, have reinforced each other.
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