Resumen

POSADAS SEGURA, Florencio. Agricultural day laborers’ job market in Mexico. Región y sociedad [online]. 2018, vol.30, n.72, 00008. ISSN 2448-4849.  https://doi.org/10.22198/rys.2018.72.a885.

The aim of this article is to illustrate the situation of ag­ricultural day laborers’ job market in Sinaloa and Guerrero, Mexico. It exposes workforce characteristics in the rural la­bor market in line with the strategy for reducing production costs, based on the configuration theory and methodology and the fieldwork. It follows that businessmen determine the socio-demographic, work, wage and subjective profile of workforce. Waged agricultural workers play a second­ary role, focusing on survival strategies and, in an incipient manner, on the construction of identities and new avenues of collective action.

Palabras llave : rural labor market; agricultural day laborers; supply and demand; workforce; Villa Benito Juarez, Sinaloa; Tlapa, Guerrero.