Resumen de Transnational Labor Process and Gender Relations: Women in Fruit and Vegetable Production in Chile, Brazil and Mexico
This paper examines labor dynamics in the export agro-industry, a workforce structured by gender, ethnicity and migratory status. Focusing on efforts to secure cheap and highly controllable labor in Chile, Brazil and Mexico, the author finds more diversity in assignments the notation of �cheap labor� suggest, She argues that theories of labor must attend to existing structures of inequality at the local level when analyzing expansion of the labor pool, reduction of returns to skilled labor, and emergence of a differentiated workforce
