Women In Andalucian Olive Grove. New And Old Forms In Agricultural Work

The olive tree has been part of the Andalusia countryside since antiquity, although its implementation as a monoculture, in the provinces like Jaen, culminating in the second half of the twentieth century. The structural nature that status conferred on the Community agro seems to be inextricably linked to an "apparent" immobility primarily on cultivation and harvesting, where a familiar universe of generic and generational asymmetries tends to perpetuate both crews family " piecework and traditional. The work has changed little, ultimately a matter of political ecologies, and the woman remains largely responsible for collecting, kneeling, and the fruit that falls from the tree. In this paper we propose reflect the binomial woman-olive, synchronically and diachronically, across the analysis with the daily practice of some of its characters, sketches life stories of women working in the lands of Jaen,