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Recent transformations in rural areas require a different look to understand the complexity of the occupational world. In this way, focus this work in the socio-demographic and work dynamic employment of rural populations in the North of Patagonia, which have shown a differential growth in recent decades. On the one hand, Pilcaniyeu in the so-called "Línea Sur rionegrina", cattle ranching area with peasant and indigenous presence. In the other hand, Villa Pehuenia and Moquehue in Neuquén province, located in a region that presents a mountain landscape with forests and lakes, features valued as attractive conditions for turism activity. Methodologically, we triangulate sources and primary and secondary data from two recently initiated research projects The results lead to reflect about the persistence of the only occupation linked to agrarian activities, dynamics that acquires spatial mobility and complexity they acquire links rural-urban and urban-rural. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Argentina, some works imply, as an unavoidable process, the disappearance of the rural towns, mainly in the "Pampa" region. Although this statement is true, it does not mean that the tendency is unambiguous; on the contrary, differentiated demographic dynamics of rural towns can be identified, which are strongly linked to the characteristics of production systems and the possibilities of non - agrarian jobs, with a combination of incomes and a seasonal / temporary working mobility. Within the framework of this discussion about the rural world, the need to understand the processes of change that are taking place emerges, which rescues the social, cultural and production realities of the rural communities. Therefore, this paper aims at understanding the changes that are affecting the towns and rural population in an extensive "rionegrino" territory: "La Linea Sur" (The South Line). Through the assessment of case studies, the differentiating tendencies are analysed in order to prove the growth or decline of towns, the development of pluri - activity forms of development and their connection with de - agriculturization processes of the rural world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lately, several authors have been analyzing the changes in rural areas triggered by globalization. The concepts of new rurality and pluriactivity have allowed progress along these lines, highlighting the new difficulties facing the most vulnerable sectors. This study explores the transformation of peripheral rural territories in Mendoza (Argentina), particularly those that have been thought of as isolated and traditional. This research develops from a case study, combines quantitative and qualitative methods, and takes the production undertakings happening in those lands as units of analysis. Production and economic situations of the past are compared to those in the present. The tendency toward pluriactivity is here considered as a response to the new conditions, and also as an expression of the process of articulation with the capitalist system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rural world in Latin America provides today an interesting scenery of social, economic and cultural transformations due to globalization. This process reflects on heterogeneous constitution processes of social subjects in the rural world. Therefore these processes can no longer be studied on the basis of conceptual frameworks that lie in urban and rural dichotomy. The rural question opens an encouraging space of debate that allows the discussion of theoretical categories and methodological tools, traditionally used to intervene in the rural world. In this paper we concentrated our reflection in the organization of domestic labour between impoverished rural producers that must incorporate non agrarian practices as a way to guarantee their social reproduction. We believe that in the rural development studies some obstacles are being experienced when trying to analyze the heterogeneity which characterizes the constitution processes of this "rural" social subjects. This paper propose a case study conformed by small rural producers that participates in a community forestry project carried out by an NGO in Formosa province, in Argentina. This allowed us to evidence the existing tensions, between a "domestic" and a "technical" logic in the practices and representations that are at stake in the workforce organization of this groups activities and their role in the construction of a "domestic productive project" of this units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]