Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century

Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2022-12-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 900452942X

Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover the period from the early modern to the present – a period when the emergence and consolidation of capitalism has transformed rural areas all over the globe. Three questions have guided the approach and the structure of this volume. First, how and why have peasant families managed to survive under conditions of advancing commercialisation and industrialisation? Second, why have coercive labour relations been so persistent in the agricultural sector and third, what was the role of states in the recruitment of agricultural workers? Contributors are: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Josef Ehmer, Katherine Jellison, Juan Carmona, James Simpson, Sophie Elpers, Debojyoti Das, Lozaan Khumbah, Karl Heinz Arenz, Leida Fernandez-Prieto, Rachel Kurian, Rafael Marquese, Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza, Rogério Naques Faleiros, Alessandro Stanziani, Alexander Keese, Dina Bolokan, and Janina Puder.

Mining the Fields

Mining the Fields
Author: John C. Leggett
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 138
Release: 1998
Genre: Agricultural laborers
ISBN: 9781882289660

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The Size of The Slice Chapter 4 The Imperial Legacy: Racism and Omission of Triumph Chapter 5 Organizing The Unorganized: Combatting The Grower and The Labor Contractor Chapter 6 Taking It On The Chin and Fighting Back: Defensive and Offensive Strikes Chapter 7 Conclusions: Tactics Out of The Past For the Future Chapter 8 Appendix A: Mining The Fields: The Tindals and Migratory Farm Labor Chapter 9 Footnotes Chapter 10 Photograph Credits Chapter 11 Author Index

Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture

Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture
Author: Jörg Gertel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1134655509

Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of this depends on migrating workers for seasonal labour, including from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Latin America. This book is the first to address global agro-migration complexes across the region. It is argued that both intensive agricultural production and related working conditions are highly dynamic. Regional patterns have developed from small-scale family farming to become an industrialized part of the global agri-food system, which increasingly depends on seasonal labour. Simultaneously, consumer demand for year-round supply has caused relocations of the industry within Europe; areas of intensive greenhouse production have moved further south and even into North Africa. The authors investigate this Mediterranean agri-food system that transcends borders and is largely constituted by invisible seasonal work. By revealing the story of food commodities loaded with implications of private profit seeking, exploitation, exclusion and multiple insecurities, the book unmasks the hidden costs of fresh food provisioning. Three case study areas are considered in detail: the French region of Provence, a traditional centre of fresh fruit and vegetable cultivation; the Spanish Almería region where intensive production has, accelerated dramatically since the 1970s; and Morocco where counter-seasonal production has recently been expanding. The book also includes commentaries that refer to complemetary insights on US-Mexico, Philippines-Canada and South Pacific mobilities.

Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an Age of Globalisation

Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an Age of Globalisation
Author: Joe Regan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2018-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351055488

This book investigates the causes and effects of modernisation in rural regions of Britain and Ireland, continental Europe, the Americas, and Australasia between 1780 and 1914. In this period, the transformation of the world economy associated with the Industrial Revolution fuelled dramatic changes in the international countryside, as landowning elites, agricultural workers, and states adapted to the consequences of globalisation in a variety of ways. The chapters in this volume illustrate similarities, differences, and connections between the resulting manifestations of agrarian reform and resistance that spread throughout the Euro-American world and beyond during the long nineteenth century.

The Farm Worker

The Farm Worker
Author: National Union of Agricultural Workers (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 23
Release:
Genre: Agricultural laborers
ISBN:

Farmworkers

Farmworkers
Author: Alan Armstrong
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1988
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book seeks to distil the experience of some 5 million people over two centuries in four contexts - the home and the workplace, the local community and the wider social environment, in order to produce a picture of farming life as experienced by individual workers and their families.

Balancing Acts

Balancing Acts
Author: Demetrios G. Papademetriou
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The authors take a hard look at the complicated issue of perishable-crop agriculture and its workforce. Among their recommendations are ways to guarantee the agriculture sector a legal supply of labor in return for improved conditions for those workers.