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Ungleichheitswirkung von Sozialreformen in Lateinamerika

Politische Regulierung bezahlter Haushaltsarbeit in Uruguay
Nomos,  2020, 402 Pages

ISBN 978-3-8487-6716-8


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The work is part of the series Studien zu Lateinamerika | Latin America Studies (Volume 39)
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englischPostmillennial social reforms implemented by the centre-left governments in Latin America aimed to achieve a significant reduction in inequality. This case study analyses the process of regulating domestic work in Uruguayan households, an internationally praised political development. Based on different sources, such as labour laws, parliamentary debates, political manifestos, qualitative interviews, social statistics and TV advertisements, the research shows that the implementation of a minimum wage, collective bargaining rights or the entitlement to social security had negligible effects on alleviating inequalities in this sector. The findings of the study allow us to generalise about other ambitious social reforms of that time. Furthermore, they question popular premises within Latin American studies. This study challenges the thesis that domestic work can be regarded as a prototype of ‘informal labour’ which is unregulated or even impossible to regulate.

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