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Introduction: Model Performance or Precarious Employment?

In: The Chilean Labor Market

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  • Kirsten Sehnbruch

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Sonia lives in a low-income neighborhood of Santiago called Pedro Aguirre Cerda. She and her husband, Germán, have one daughter. They live in an area where most of the people I interviewed complained that at least one member of their family was unemployed. Sonia had lost her previous job with a cleaning subcontractor two months prior to our interview when they realized that she was pregnant. She shrugged her shoulders and said: “They would have thrown me out anyway. It’s not as though I can take the baby to work with me. Also, the shifts were too long. We sometimes did three or four jobs in a day … plus the travel time. You can’t do that with a baby.”1

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  • Kirsten Sehnbruch, 2006. "Introduction: Model Performance or Precarious Employment?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Chilean Labor Market, chapter 1, pages 3-20, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-8364-0_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403983640_1
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