Sellers & Servants
Sellers & Servants

Author: Ximena Bunster

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Social research survey of working conditions and living conditions among low income woman workers (domestic workers and street vendors) in Lima, Peru - based on interviews, discusses informal sector and other employment opportunities for working mothers following rural migration; considers the economic conditions and time budget of female headed households; examines attitudes regarding child labour and the social implications of the sexual division of labour. Photographs, references, statistical tables.

The Peruvian Industrial Labor Force
The Peruvian Industrial Labor Force

Author: David Chaplin

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1400874890

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This is a sociological analysis of change and mobility in the labor force of thirteen of the largest textile factories in Peru. The book explores demographic and social variables such as age, sex, birthplace, migration, seniority, current and former occupations, and employment status as possible indices of rationality in the Peruvian labor market. There are two especially striking empirical findings: the Peruvian textile industry has not been plagued by the high levels of labor turnover generally assumed to be inevitable in underdeveloped countries; since 1955 women are being shut out of better-paying manufacturing jobs because of welfare laws that make them more expensive to employ than men. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Law and Employment
Law and Employment

Author: James J. Heckman

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 0226322858

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Law and Employment analyzes the effects of regulation and deregulation on Latin American labor markets and presents empirically grounded studies of the costs of regulation. Numerous labor regulations that were introduced or reformed in Latin America in the past thirty years have had important economic consequences. Nobel Prize-winning economist James J. Heckman and Carmen Pagés document the behavior of firms attempting to stay in business and be competitive while facing the high costs of complying with these labor laws. They challenge the prevailing view that labor market regulations affect only the distribution of labor incomes and have little or no impact on efficiency or the performance of labor markets. Using new micro-evidence, this volume shows that labor regulations reduce labor market turnover rates and flexibility, promote inequality, and discriminate against marginal workers. Along with in-depth studies of Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Jamaica, and Trinidad, Law and Employment provides comparative analysis of Latin American economies against a range of European countries and the United States. The book breaks new ground by quantifying not only the cost of regulation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and in the OECD, but also the broader impact of this regulation.

Labor and Politics in Peru
Labor and Politics in Peru

Author: James L. Payne

Publisher:

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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Peru. An historical study of the labour movement in its strategic environment. Its relation to political parties. Internal administrative aspects, financing, leadership, membership, etc. Labour relations, strikes, legal aspects, etc. Government policy. Trade unions include industrial workers as well as rural workers, office workers and school teachers.

To Be a Worker
To Be a Worker

Author: Jorge Parodi

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2003-06-19

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0807860905

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A contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in 1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980s. Jorge Parodi uses a case study of Metal Empresa, a large factory in Lima, to trace the surge and decline of the labor movement in Peru--and in Latin America more generally--through the successes and frustrations of the members of a once-powerful union as they coped with the nation's deteriorating economic situation. By the early 1970s, Metal Empresa was the site of one of the most radical and aggressive unions in Peruvian industry. But as the decade drew to a close, political and economic crises soured the environment for trade unionism and rendered unions less able to produce palpable benefits for their members. Through in-depth, often poignant interviews, including an extensive oral history of one of the workers, Jesus Zuniga, Parodi shows how workers desperate to support themselves and their families were increasingly forced to seek opportunities outside the industrial sector. In the process, he shows, they began to question their very identities as workers.

The Allure of Labor
The Allure of Labor

Author: Paulo Drinot

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2011-04-25

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0822350130

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Reveals how Perus early-twentieth-century labor reforms excluded the majority of the countrys laborers. They were indigenous, and the nations elites saw indigeneity as incommensurable with work, modernity, and industrial progress.