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291 On the status of agricultural labor in Egypt in the light of global changes
Exposure of the Egyptian society of different classes and social classes to change, especially following the implementation of policies of structural adjustment programs, the reason for a variety of mechanisms of impoverishment and enrichment through these policies, with slides of many segments of the middle class to lower class, in addition to the deterioration of the economic level of the lower classes, as well as Some move through the mechanisms of enrichment to the level of the upper class, or their followers. Not be separated from rural change suffered by the community, but on the contrary, they began implementing structural adjustment programs in the agriculture sector in the second half of the eighties of the last century.
The workers of agricultural social group distinct in the rural community, and Do relative weight, and may not have a precise count of the numbers of agricultural labor or in other words, the Cubs, in terms of limited number of agricultural workers action, as classified workers in terms of occupation (agriculture) or economic activity (agriculture, fishing, ), Workers agricultural are landless, who depend on their labor power in agriculture, although it may find their weight relative terms of numbers of workers in the agriculture sector, which accounts for this sector in Egypt.
The Orbiter of the last three decades discovers many changes in the characteristics of farm workers, whether the properties of economic, social, even though in its entirety, showing the mechanisms of social mobility downward incident to them, and more impoverishment, in addition to more low these properties, which means more or less non- access to any of their rights as human beings, they were in most segments and layers of Egyptian society and fuel the growth of globalized capitalism in nature.
And agricultural workers to date they represent the weight ratio of numerical slice very important, especially in agriculture, which is no alternative to development for the human security of Egypt, and the safety of the structure of Egyptian society that is now threatened by the specter of social disintegration full, that even though we see it, we find the study This slide social unavoidable where neglected the study clearly, and therefore I intend to center of the earth to put this issue in the workshop, which includes the following topics: |