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GOMEZ PEREZ, Ana Laura  e  ROJAS ALARCON, Evelia. Five centuries of wage inequality in the Mexican textile industry. Acad. (Asunción) [online]. 2025, vol.12, n.2, e1099.  Epub 20-Jun-2025. ISSN 2414-8938.  https://doi.org/10.30545/academo.2025.n2.1099.

The Mexican textile industry faced socioeconomic problems from the sixteenth century to the MSMEs; the sexual division of labor in textile factories was a watershed in the wage gap in the socioeconomic context in conjunction with the allocation of activities. The objective of analyzing the wage gap and social transformations in the Mexican textile industry through a logical-historical methodology allowed us to capture the changes, trajectories and continuities to identify patterns and causal relationships that underlie the historical facts of this industry related to wages for more than six centuries. The socioeconomic metamorphosis of labor precariousness and wage inequalities of MSMEs and large factories are also visualized as the main variables in this research, resulting in the construction of comparative tables of wages between men and women, educational levels and the number of workers according to gender. Among the findings is the presence of female textile empowerment since the sixteenth century as a relevant phenomenon that consolidated this sector, which allowed concluding that manufacturing activities led by women contributed to the search for wage equity, the reduction of labor precariousness and the creation of MSMEs.

Palavras-chave : Textile industry; wages; social and economic rights; industrial sector; industrial worker.

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