Göran Djurfeldt
Professor emeritus
‘Big is not always beautiful’ : Family farms and capitalism
Författare
Summary, in English
Large landed estates often have an interesting history, worth digging into. Labour hiring is usually regarded as the capitalist relation of production. A classic study from the 1980s of salad farms in California, United States of America (USA), showed that farm workers were recruited from highly segmented niches in the labour market, with illegal immigrants at the lower rungs doing the most tedious jobs at the lowest wages. Green Card holders occupied a higher and somewhat better niche, as overseers, quality controllers, etc. In Andalusia in Spain, as well as in latifundist areas in South America and also currently in India, there are farm management firms, taking on large landholdings on the part of their owner families, proffering professional management of the farms, using up to date methods, much machinery and recruiting specialised workers and small ‘armies’ of casual labour. Property-owning peasants, in England called yeoman farmers became a small minority in the countryside.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi
Publiceringsår
2021
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
222-241
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Global Political Economy : A Critique of Contemporary Capitalism
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Economics and Business
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 9781000483680