{"title":"International Teleworking in Latin America","authors":"Marina Kabat","doi":"10.1177/0094582x241311825","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Desde la pandemia, América Latina experimentó un drástico crecimiento del número de trabajadores que se emplean en forma remota para empresas extranjeras. No obstante, los mismos cambios que facilitaron esta expansión del teletrabajo internacional aceleran la competencia global entre trabajadores, lo que junto con la crisis que atraviesa la industria del software, genera despidos y caída salarial. En este contexto, estudiamos las diferentes trayectorias de los países latinoamericanos, los rubros ocupacionales en que cada uno se inserta, las tensiones que estos cambios generan el ámbito doméstico y los desafíos que presentan para pensar estratégicamente el desarrollo regional.Since the pandemic, Latin America has experienced a drastic growth in the number of workers employed remotely by foreign companies. However, the same changes that facilitated this expansion of international teleworking have accelerated global competition between workers. This, along with the current crisis of the software industry, leads to layoffs and a drop in wages. This paper addresses the different paths of several Latin American countries, the occupational categories in which each one is inserted, the tensions that these changes produce in the domestic sphere, and the challenges they entail for thinking strategically about regional development.","PeriodicalId":47390,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Perspectives","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Latin American Perspectives","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582x241311825","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"AREA STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Desde la pandemia, América Latina experimentó un drástico crecimiento del número de trabajadores que se emplean en forma remota para empresas extranjeras. No obstante, los mismos cambios que facilitaron esta expansión del teletrabajo internacional aceleran la competencia global entre trabajadores, lo que junto con la crisis que atraviesa la industria del software, genera despidos y caída salarial. En este contexto, estudiamos las diferentes trayectorias de los países latinoamericanos, los rubros ocupacionales en que cada uno se inserta, las tensiones que estos cambios generan el ámbito doméstico y los desafíos que presentan para pensar estratégicamente el desarrollo regional.Since the pandemic, Latin America has experienced a drastic growth in the number of workers employed remotely by foreign companies. However, the same changes that facilitated this expansion of international teleworking have accelerated global competition between workers. This, along with the current crisis of the software industry, leads to layoffs and a drop in wages. This paper addresses the different paths of several Latin American countries, the occupational categories in which each one is inserted, the tensions that these changes produce in the domestic sphere, and the challenges they entail for thinking strategically about regional development.
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Latin American Perspectives is a theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. The journal"s objective is to encourage class analysis of sociocultural realities and political strategies to transform Latin American sociopolitical structures. The journal makes a conscious effort to publish a diversity of political viewpoints, both Marxist and non-Marxist perspectives, that have influenced progressive debates in Latin America.