Trabajo agrícola de Temporada y su impacto en la Salud

Resumen

This article characterizes and seeks to describe the seasonal agricultural sector in context of \nglobalization following a gender perspective in Chile. A historical overview of the working \nconditions of seasonal agricultural work and how the health workers is affected by that conditions \nis analyzed in the text. In addition the text shows how seasonal agricultural wage labor increase \nsocial division work producing a feminization of labor in this sector. The large-scale production of \nexport fruit has produced a lot of changes in the modernization of the country, monoculture and \ncompetitive market are prioritized and this is reflected in the profits of the agro-export business \nmen. But gains are not consistent with the precarious living working men and women in the \nproductive sector where health problems are reflected after 20 years of work. Mental health \nproblems brought about by the cycle of seasonal fruit are some factors that affect the lives of \nwomen employed in agriculture.