Abstract

ROJAS CONTRERAS, Janeth. The administration of precariousness and flexibility as an opportunity. An ethnography on the local production of jeans. Cuad. antropol. soc. [online]. 2020, n.52, pp.55-70. ISSN 1850-275X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34096/cas.i52.7008.

This article aims to show, from an ethnographic approach, the producers of jeans in San Mateo Ayecac, Tlaxcala, Mexico, as rural subjects who manage their own precariousness and see flexibility as an opportunity to generate productive businesses on their own, making use of immediate resources: farmland, housing and relationships based on trust that allow them to create a type of subordinate economy, where they take on the figure of owners and workers at the same time; flexibility and precariousness are transversal to their lifestyle, the process of socialization and working conditions and organization. That is, they emerge as new rural subjects from the pores of neoliberal capitalism, as surplus population and, at the same time, responsible for their own survival and maintenance.

Keywords : Precarity management; Flexibility; Resources; Rural Subjects; Jeans.

        · abstract in Spanish | Portuguese     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )