WOMEN, SELF EMPLOYMENT AND CASUALIZATION IN THE CUBAN CONTEXT

Authors

  • Maria Izabel Machado
  • Marlene Tamanini

Abstract

The update of the Cuban economic model has produced changes that impact men and women differently, as the regulation of new economic agents. In labor relations strongly influenced by these measures are witnessing significant increase in self-employment or cuentapropismo, form of autonomous work, alternative to low public sector wages and rural cooperatives. Despite the recent regulation of this sector many do not access due to the high costs for obtaining licenses, constituting a market submerged by which circulate goods and workers on the margins of rights and legality. The supply chains that are established corroborate the maintenance of women in roles essentialised transforming his work in family care, not always paid. Such an analysis is carried empirically through participant observation and in-depth interviews carried out during the first half of 2015 in the province of Holguin, as part of doctoral research in progress.

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Published

2016-11-02

How to Cite

Machado, M. I., & Tamanini, M. (2016). WOMEN, SELF EMPLOYMENT AND CASUALIZATION IN THE CUBAN CONTEXT. Revista Da ABET. Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs/index.php/abet/article/view/31262

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Dossiê: Relações de Gênero, Raça e Etnia no Mercado de Trabalho