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Migrant Farmworkers in 'Plastic Factories' - Investigating Work-Life Struggles (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021) Loot Price: R1,976
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Migrant Farmworkers in 'Plastic Factories' - Investigating Work-Life Struggles (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Valeria Piro

Migrant Farmworkers in 'Plastic Factories' - Investigating Work-Life Struggles (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

Valeria Piro

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This book provides a fine-grained ethnographic examination of the everyday negotiations and conflicts taking place in greenhouses and packinghouses in an agricultural district in south-eastern Italy (Sicily). In a highly competitive global scenario, driven by multinational corporations and large retailers, small and medium-sized farms largely rely on migrant labour to fill their demand for casualized, flexible and low-paid jobs. By taking the reader into the 'plastic factories' where the author was hired as a farmworker, this book sheds light on the struggles - around the employment contract, the wage and the body - which take place every day between employers and employees. The book contributes to broadening the understanding of the dynamics innervating food production worldwide by recognizing the pivotal role of migrant labour not only as a factor in the restructuring of global supply chains, but also as an actor shaping these processes through its own unpredictable strategies.

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Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Release date: June 2021
First published: 2021
Authors: Valeria Piro
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 151
Edition: 1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13: 978-3-03-074508-0
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
LSN: 3-03-074508-2
Barcode: 9783030745080

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