Comparative study of rural labor in forestry, seeds and fruit growing (Argentina 2008-2011)

Abstract

This paper is based on case studies done among 2008-2011, on rural labor in concentrated investments. Economic sectors studied were fruticulture in Rio Negro Upper Valley, forestry in Misiones NW, and transgenic corn seeds in Buenos Aires North.

Methodology was multisited ethnography searching on different actors’ point of view. Techniques applied were in field deep interviews and participant observation. Secondary analysis by comparative method shown in this paper allows us to point out three continuity issues:

Enterprises strategy to discern between “production” and “services”, reduces classic employment positions. The environmentalization of labor relationship happens by means of quality management and total quality proceedings. This relationship link work (understood as “well done job”) with productivity growth. There are different territories one related with production, the other with work and workers dwelling.