Implications of Teaching Training in the Sociology of Work in Mexico

Claudio-Rafael Vasquez-Martinez 
(University of Guadalajara, Mexico)

Abstract: The labour markets in Mexico are characterised by uncertainty in terms of the lack of work contracts social protection, unemployment, high level of self-employed workers independently and micro-businesses, low income levels, the involuntary part-time working and low levels of unionisation. The all indicate that the labour situation currently reflects many deficiencies in the urban labour markets of Mexico.
    Over the three last decades, modest periods of growth and crises have taken place within a strategy of neoliberal development that promotes increased exports and foreign economic investment. Rates of unemployment have stayed low, with the exception of the devaluation crisis of 1995, but our labour markets continue to display very marked weaknesses with regard to occupations and jobs with reasonable income and other suitable conditions of work.

Key words: teaching, training, sociology