Mujeres, Cooperativas y Economía social. Un análisis etnográfico sobre mujeres recuperadoras en el Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, Argentina (AMBA) con perspectiva de género

Puricelli, Verónica V.; Ardaya, Sofía Rodríguez

doi:10.35305/s.v10i1.159

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“…Their work was therefore not equal in its practice or its value. These findings confirm other studies of gender and informal recycling from the global South that have found that women earn less money, have a more constrained experience of their work environments, and are assigned gendered divisions of labor when working in groups (Marinsalta, 2015;Mitchell, 2008;Puricelli & Rodriguez Ardaya, 2018;Vergara Mattar, 2008). In Buenos Aires, the forms of informal recycling work performed by women and men tended to be different.…”

Section: Gendered Experiences Of Informal Recyclingsupporting

confidence: 88%

“…These accounts indicate that female informal recyclers often work differently than men in many parts of the world, and that these work habits are often imbricated in displays of masculinity and/or femininity. In Latin America, small‐scale research has also observed gendered differences between informal recyclers including gendered divisions of labor and social reproduction tasks among family work groups in Bahía Blanca, Argentina (Marinsalta, 2015) and in Córdoba, Argentina (Vergara Mattar, 2008), the gendered differentiation of recycling co‐op tasks in Greater Buenos Aires (Puricelli & Rodriguez Ardaya, 2018), women recyclers more often balancing parenting work with their cooperative work in Greater Buenos Aires (Puricelli & Rodriguez Ardaya, 2018), and gendered hierarchies within cooperatives in Minas Gerais, Brazil (Dias & Ogando, 2015b). There are therefore indications that informal recycling in Latin America is a gendered occupation, and that women recyclers often take on both domestic aspects of recycling work and domestic caring responsibilities in tandem with income‐earning recycling work.…”

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‘Our faces change, but it's always the same story’: Crises of social reproduction among informal recyclers in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Parizeau

2023

Gender Work & Organization

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This paper investigates the gendered dynamics of informal recycling in Buenos Aires, Argentina at a moment of transition in the governance of this work. I argue that there is a strong gender binary apparent in this type of informal work, and that the public nature of informal recycling can exacerbate the gendered crisis of social reproduction experienced by many women recyclers through inviting interventions into their work. This research is based on an extensive survey of informal recyclers and a series of interviews conducted between 2007 and 2011. In Buenos Aires, women's informal recycling work has had a more collective, social, and domestic image as compared to masculine industrial versions of this work. On average, women had more geographically limited experiences of the city and earned less money than men. Women carrying out social reproduction in public spaces were positioned as both needing assistance and deserving of it. The entwining of work and social reproduction for many women informal workers requires that any interventions to improve their work take into account the particular challenges associated with publicly performing the double burden of labor that they bear.

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Section: Gendered Experiences Of Informal Recyclingsupporting

confidence: 88%