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This article gives an account of the collective actions understood as new forms of resistance that have been developed by the National Association of Rural and Indigenous Women (ANAMURI) a social organization of rural women and wage workers of the agricultural sector that emerged in Chile in the 1990s. From written and oral sources, documents and direct observations at meetings and congresses of the organization, this paper addresses the wide range of strategies to face the precarious working conditions of "seasonal workers" working in agro-export sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work determines the evolution of programs of ethical behavior, perceptions of the ethical practices of executives, supervisors and employees as well as the verification of pressures to transgress ethical norms in the Chilean organizations with relationship to those observed in the organizations in United States among the years 2004 and 2010. The used inquiry instruments were a questionnaire (NBS, 2003) authorized for their use. The covering of the sample embraced five regions of Chile that represent the population's 64.15%. The sampling was of the stratified type - aproporcional and the size of the sample was determined with 95% of trust a stochastic error of 4.34% reaching the 254 elements you show them. In conclusion the Chilean organizations are located below their North American couples in several of the analyzed ethical aspects. In United States bigger presence of ethical programs exists inside the organizations, also in Chile bigger pressures exist to transgress the ethical norms that in United States. See observes a bigger number of bad practical in Chile that those perceived in United States, however the accusations that make the Chilean employees are smaller to those of their North American couples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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