Labour markets represent the backbone of economic functioning, providing the means of survival to populations, with labour income ensuring the livelihood of workers and families alike. Labour is also an essential input ...

In this text we show some of the tranformatios in the labour relations in the agroindustry sector that ocurred in the small rural family properties, located in the west of Santa Catarina's State and that are vinculated to ...

This article seeks to make an orderly summary of the information on urban female labour in Latin America in the 1990s and thus make a contribution to an updated diagnosis of the female labour market to help serve in the ...

Latin America has partly overcome the short-term adjustment stage following the external debt crisis and is now in a stage of restructuring marked by opening up to external markets. These changes, which have included the ...

According to the ILO, in 2004 there were 218 million children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 17 at work throughout the world. In Brazil, 5.1 million were at work in 2006. It was noted that there was a tendency ...

Job creation continues to be a priority in economic policy because the wellbeing of families depends on the quantity and quality of jobs available. In 2004-2008, Latin America recorded its highest economic growth in 40 ...

The changing characteristics of labour during agrarian restructuring are a result of processes of productive transformation typical of this stage of capitalism, where land consolidation, technological change, and economic ...