Resumen

AQUEVEDO S., Eduardo. Reestructuración, flexibilidad y trabajo en América Latina. Pap. poblac [online]. 2000, vol.6, n.26, pp.89-107. ISSN 2448-7147.

The aim of this study is to analyze, in a necessary synthetic way, the new socioeconomic procedures that have been taking place in Latin America during the last decades, and particularly the one that refers to the relations among the flexibilization phenomena and their effects in the work markets and democratic processes en various countries of the region. Special attention is given to the precarization processes of the work enforcement in a large number of countries of the region, with the extension of temporary work, with or without contract, an the subsequent reduction of the salary costs in the different sectors of the economy.