The tobacco industry and the labor market in Santa Cruz do Sul-RS

Authors

  • Marco André Cadoná Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7867/2317-5443.2015v3n1p205-221

Keywords:

Employment/unemployment, regional dynamic of the labor market, Santa Cruz do Sul, tobacco industry, working conditions.

Abstract

The article analyzes how regional development dynamics affect the organization of labor markets. Taking as empirical reference to a survey conducted in the second half of 2013, along with two hundred seventy-two workers of Santa Cruz do Sul-Rio Grande do Sul State (Brazil), attends to how regional particularities contribute to defining the ways of workforce use. Santa Cruz do Sul maintains a history and dependent relationship with the tobacco industry, whose production organization has among its features the “seasonalityâ€: every year, between January and June/July, the tobacco produced by farmers comes to be processed and the industries hire temporary workers (“seasonal workersâ€); from July/August, when the tobacco industry enters an “off-seasonâ€, only permanent workers remain linked, and the “seasonal workers†are dismissed. Thus, in Santa Cruz do Sul, many workers experience a randomness situation in the labor market alternating annually, activity and non- activity time.

JEL-Code | J43; J64; O18.

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Author Biography

Marco André Cadoná, Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC).

Graduado em Filosofia, com Mestrado em Sociologia e Doutorado em Sociologia Política. É professor e pesquisador na Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC), onde atua no Departamento de Ciências Humanas e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional.

Published

2015-11-30

How to Cite

Cadoná, M. A. (2015). The tobacco industry and the labor market in Santa Cruz do Sul-RS. Revista Brasileira De Desenvolvimento Regional, 3(1), 205–221. https://doi.org/10.7867/2317-5443.2015v3n1p205-221

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