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Gender, Contracts and Wage Work: Agricultural Restructuring in Brazil's São Francisco Valley

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Brazil̂s São Francisco Valley provides an example of the ways in which agro‐food firms are attempting to mobilize and control labour as they expand production of fruits and vegetables for domestic and global markets. In crops where cost reduction is a primary concern, firms choose highly ‘flexible’ forms of labour mobilization, drawing on the casual labour of migrants from the Brazilian Northeast. In crops where the quality and timing of produce are of great importance, firms use either subcontracting arrangements that mobilize family labour, or the labour of local women and children. In this way, firms involved in the production of fruits and vegetables show many similarities to their counterparts in certain branches of industry: they are actively experimenting with labour arrangements that tap the most vulnerable segments of the international workforce, and that appropriate unpaid family labour.

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  • Jane L. Collins, 1993. "Gender, Contracts and Wage Work: Agricultural Restructuring in Brazil's São Francisco Valley," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 24(1), pages 53-82, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:24:y:1993:i:1:p:53-82
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.1993.tb00477.x
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    1. Mackintosh, Maureen, 1977. "Fruit and vegetables as an international commodity : The relocation of horticultural production and its implications for the producers," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 2(4), pages 277-292, November.
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    1. Conradie, Beatrice, 2007. "What do we mean when we say casualisation of farm work is rising?: Evidence from fruit farms in the Western Cape," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 46(2), pages 1-22, June.

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