Abstract

RIVERA GONZALEZ, José Guadalupe. Middle class families in urban areas: the development of new familiar strategies of employment. Pap. poblac [online]. 2005, vol.11, n.46, pp.161-187. ISSN 2448-7147.

This paper focuses on the new working experiences that had to be implemented by a group of middle class families in Mexico City to cope with the temporal or definite loss of employments. This study intends to observe the impact caused by the economical crisis of november, 1994, on the middle class, when strangely, the social lower class was less affected. This behavior or particular effect of the crisis came to corroborate an hypothesis supported by other scholars who argued that households where the income is based uniquely on wages, as it was the case of the middle class families studied, the effects of the crisis were of consideration in comparison to those households were the economic income had a varied source (self employment).

Keywords : middle class families; economical crisis; new working experiences; effect of de crisis; quality of life; self employment.

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