Labor inequities in the pandemic: some considerations to reflect on dignity and exclusion in food delivery people in the city of Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo

Abstract

In the framework of the Covid-19 health crisis, the contemporary Administration needs to carefully examine the scope of its most important theoretical and conceptual contents. To do this, recovering concepts from the Social Sciences allows balancing its relevance as a discipline. Uncertainty, as a contingent variable of organizational analysis, highlighted with the connection of the context to identify the gap between theory and daily manifestations of work. Vulnerability worsened, through the development of operational activities at work, by making visible different elements that were hidden, which when manifested result in a model of precariousness characterized by exclusion. The thread that weaves these narratives is found in the collective imagination. That houses a complex framework of meanings that reproduce inequalities. This presentation reflects on two central concepts: dignity and exclusion. The work is divided into two sections. The first discusses how people's dignity is strained when there is a high level of job uncertainty. The meaning of the concept of dignity in and for work in the pandemic is outlined. Subsequently, the concept of exclusion is exposed, which crosses the perception of the effort to carry out a task and denotes it in the current context and as a consequence of the neoliberal financial crisis, which has led thousands of people to lose a job and live in a state of socioeconomic precariousness. The work focuses on food delivery workers in the city of Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo.