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Accepted Paper:
The urban poor in Mexico City: work precariousness and mutual organization in the struggle for survival.
Angela Giglia
(Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)
Paper short abstract:
Based of several years of fieldwork, the paper examines different forms of solidarity and resistance taking place among poor and precarious workers in Mexico City.
Paper long abstract:
Starting from a discussion of some classic thesis about the poor in Mexico City, such as Oscar Lewis and Larissa Lomnitz, the paper will present different forms of solidarity and resistance among poor and unwarranted workers in contemporary Mexico City. The central idea is to show how labor precariousness in global economy, even if it includes high amounts of competition and individualism, is not irreconcilable with old and new forms of social ties, which may generate specific practices of solidarity but may also contribute to maintain labor precariousness as a way of life, the more and more conceived as normal. These topics will be examined starting from different case studies that I have observed in the last 15 years of fieldwork in Mexico City.