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Aguirre, R.; Batthyány, K. (coord.)
Work, gender and citizenship in the countries of the Southern Cone

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 2001
387 p.

 

(Full text available only in Spanish pdf format)

 

This book is the result of an International Seminar on "Gender, Work and Citizenship in the Countries of the Southern Cone", held at Montevideo in September 2000 and organised by the Sociology Department of the School of Social Sciences of the University of the Republic, Uruguay, and the Unesco Chair of Culture for Peace of the Montevideo Group Universities Association. The contents of the volume elaborate on the challenge posed by the new paradigm of the Society of Knowledge for these countries, in four chapters under the following headings: I. Recent changes in labour markets and labour relations. Inclusion and exclusion processes. II. Civil society, labour and exclusion. III. Public policies of gender equality in employment. IV. Policies and measures to promote equality of opportunities and results at work. Progress and difficulties according to the actors involved.

With this volume we try to shed some light on the research currently being carried out by universities of different countries of the sub-region and at the same time make societies aware of the exclusions generated by current transformations in the realm of labour.

Men and women researchers from Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay took part in a stimulating conceptual and methodological debate about the inclusion / exclusion of women in labour through a gender analysis, the links between the concepts of civic responsibily and work were scrutinised, and several country experiences were analysed regarding equality policies in employment. The views contributed by a wide variety of social and political agents bore witness to the dialogue and commitments in the search for gender policies in the world of labour.

 

 

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