| dc.description.abstract | The sugar cane worker, called zafrero, is a social actor, academically invisibilized as an object of
study. Research has focused on the workplace itself, which is the sugar mill from the economic,
administrative, and productive perspectives, but not the worker as a subject. For this reason, this
project analyzes the factors that influenced the transformation of the working conditions of the
sugar cane workers in the Catamayo canton, province of Loja, 2008-2021. This research addresses
part of their labor history and organization, so that they remain not only in the collective memory,
but recorded in an academic study. For this purpose, a qualitative methodology is used. Depth
interviews of the zafrero informants, who detail their motives to fight to transform their working
conditions, are considered a primary source. Also, the documents of the workers' union provided
by the informants, and other bibliographic documents supported this study. Through the analysis
of the information mentioned, it has been possible to identify the reasons for the struggle of
the zafreros while facing a precarious labor context due to casual labor modalities, for which they
had to rely on the laws to create a union organization and transform their working conditions | |
