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The transformation in the rural sector as a result of the expansion in agribusiness and the structure and operation of fruit export production together provide the context for temporary female fruit employment, and help us to understand the nature of women’s insertion into the sector. Fragmentation in the production process is mirrored in fruit employment, and atomisation is most pronounced in the seasonal employment generated in both production and packing for export. This is reflected in a number of ways. Clearly, the cyclical nature of production determines the seasonality of employment itself, but employment is also very insecure within the season, and the temporary labour force itself very heterogeneous. The gender dimension is important in analysing the fragmentation and atomisation of seasonal employment, with women concentrated in some of the most insecure jobs whilst at the same time undertaking the most important tasks for attaining high quality fruit to meet export standards.
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© 1999 Stephanie Barrientos, Anna Bee, Ann Matear and Isabel Vogel
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Barrientos, S., Bee, A., Matear, A., Vogel, I. (1999). Female Fruit Employment — Las Temporeras. In: Women and Agribusiness. Women’s Studies at York Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27216-7_5
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