El capital: creador de lugares y de relaciones sociales. Trabajo, mujer y género en las relaciones sociales de producción del suéter y blusa en Moroleón, Guanajuato

Abstract

In the present work we have as main interest to study the various social relations of production that arise from the working conditions in the sweater industry, characterized by a growing segmentation of the production process of the production of certain garments of Dress-sweater and blouse for lady. Thus, based on this segmentation, different organizational forms of work have emerged; A product of socioeconomic strategies implemented by the owners of garment factories who are exposed to manifest globalization processes in increasing the mobility of capital and goods in the economy and technological development, among others. These strategies of the owners of the workshops are linked to a situation of vulnerability of a group of people, in this case lower middle class women, who for various reasons (economic, social, etc.) are integrated into a chain of production Through their work force. This chain includes various forms of employment (home work, temporary work, plant, maquila between workshops and maquila at home) that have as a characteristic a strong presence of gender stereotypes about the work performed by both men and women. That is to say, there is an identification between the type of work that the workers perform - work on the straight machine, overlock and weavers, etc. - with the form of work they perform - eg. At home, temporary etc.-. The social phenomenon that includes the integration of the various forms of employment contracts with the situation of vulnerability of women workers and their decisions about the type of employment in which they are contracted I call labor subcontracting.