Entre calles y avenidas: trabajadores informales, atípicos y precarios en el noroeste de México

Abstract

Objective: to identify the type of labor organization that takes place amid  a vulnerable context thus leading to precarious conditions for informal workers  in Culiacán, northwestern Mexico.

Methodology: from the sociological perspective on labor this research analyzed the  following concepts: informal, precarious and atypical jobs. Based on the characteristics  of informal workers, a correlation was established taking into account  the respective  conceptualization. Therefore, a qualitative methodology was carried  out and 19 semistructured interviews were applied to urban informal workers with  random visits three times a month for six months.

Results: it was noted that due to the neoliberal model there is an expansion of informal job markets of some workers as to compensate their unemployment or underemployment conditions, as well as low income. In these work trajectories  there is an increase, with different intensities, of precarious conditions for the workers. Although not part of the analysis, an important link was found between the  workers with family networks that allow the operation to work such informality.

Conclusions: the insertion of labor into informal and atypical jobs, as a result of the  performance of the local economy that, in turn, has effects of economic policy, shows  how these jobs slightly mitigate the vulnerable conditions.