Abstract

VILLANOVA, Nicolás. Cartoneros and his integrations in the State from relative overcrowding by interval of the cooperatives: City of Buenos Aires, 2001-2012. Trab. soc. [online]. 2014, n.23, pp.67-91. ISSN 1514-6871.

The situation of the cartoneros is unchanged over more than 10 years. The 992 and 1854 laws tended to recognize the work of the cartoneros. From the year 2008, the Government changed recycling policy and it benefitted to cartoneros associated in cooperatives. This change in the management of municipal solid waste is not unprecedented: the State granted to cooperatives the possibility of collecting recyclable products in areas of work formally assigned. It also gave them subsidies, as for example, monthly incentives, infrastructure (logistics and child care), social and medical coverage. In this article we analyzed the subsidies and its real impact on the working conditions of the cartoneros. This policy has not changed substantially the working conditions of the cartoneros. It is not an universal policy, they benefit to a limited number of cartoneros. However, the change in policy presupposes a recognition of the work of cartoneros by the State and the use of a cheap labor that has not changed their attributes of their condition of relative overcrowding.

Keywords : Cartoneros; Subsidie; Recycled.

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