Ra Ximhai (Sep 2012)

The ethnic and technical division of work. The indigenous groups and family businesses

  • Alejandra López Salazar,
  • Ricardo Contreras Soto,
  • Gloria A. Miranda Zambrano

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 3
pp. 89 – 126

Abstract

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The work exposes some forms of indigenous groups participation on entrepreneurial family businesses, mainly in the region of Laja - Bajío where the family plays an important role in these organizations. The work point out theapproach on technical ethnic division of labour to locate such actors in labour circuits, in economic activities or guilds that have been built in various social processes. To analyze the ways in which they operate, the role of the family, their knowledge (cultural capital), its forms of linkage with the community of origin and with the Group (social capital), as well as the existence of certain differences with business in common. This research is part of a larger work on family businesses.

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