Estrategias familiares de trabajo y reducción de la pobreza en Bolivia

Silvia ESCOBAR DE PABON & Germán GUAYGUA. CLACSO-CROP Series, CLACSO. Buenos Aires, October 2008.

This work aims to obtain knowledge, from various perspectives, changes in the labor market and their effects on work conditions and well being. It looks particularly on strategies in families with respect to work and the distributive role of social policies to reduce social inequality and poverty resulting from structural adjustment policies in the cities of La Paz and El Alto. It is more and more difficult to find quality work in the formal sector while labor conditions in the informal also deteriorate. The authors argue that work has become a privilege of the elites, and increasingly scarce among the middle class. The book looks at how people performing traditional manual work, most affected by poverty, develops family-strategies which are aimed at alleviating situations of instant poverty.