Abstract

SEGURA HERNANDEZ, Gabriela  and  RAMIREZ MORA, Karla. Between rows of pineapple: long resisting the slave monoculture. Reflexiones [online]. 2015, vol.94, n.2, pp.11-23. ISSN 1659-2859.

Some people praise and pride themselves on carrying Costa Rican stamp, but what hides behind the sweet pineapple eaten in the U.S. and other countries? As part of the work done in collaboration with the Institute of Social Research of the University of Costa Rica in this article are systematized the main findings of the research entitled "Beyond the wage labor: Social implications in the use of the workers unpaid time linked to the pineapple monoculture at the community of Pital, San Carlos, held in the years 2012-2013". With this, we aim to demonstrate some of the repercussions that impact agricultural laborers and the pineapple agribusiness, given that the working conditions in which they are inserted are characterized by being extremely hostile; as, among other things, the long working hours to which they are subordinated and that subsequently cut their time spent participating in social interaction spaces as their families or communities; being a reality, that they condition the satisfaction of their subjective needs. For that reason, in this article we gathered the testimony of five men and five women, as well as their families, who through depth interviews disclosed the constraints they face every day, product of their work in the pineapple business.

Keywords : monoculture of pineapple; time not paid; free time; families; community.

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