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Rights-based, worker-driven accountability in the fields: Contesting the uncontested contestable

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  • Dillard, Jesse
  • Shivji, Alysha
  • Bianchi, Lara

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We investigate the politicizing of migrant farmworkers’ rights regarding a fair and humane work environment using an agonistic-based critical dialogic accounting and accountability (CDAA) lens. The aim of CDAA is to employ accounting and accountability in the service of progressive social and environmental programs by taking pluralism seriously. This process of democratization means engaging the political by making visible the contestable that is presumed otherwise; bringing the contestable into the political/public arena; and giving power and voice to traditionally underrepresented groups. The Fair Food Program (FFP) developed by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) presents a meaningful opportunity to study a rights-based, worker-driven, non-state directed accountability system designed and implemented by the workers in a highly contested, for-profit arena where workers’ rights traditionally have been egregiously oppressed and abused.

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  • Dillard, Jesse & Shivji, Alysha & Bianchi, Lara, 2024. "Rights-based, worker-driven accountability in the fields: Contesting the uncontested contestable," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:crpeac:v:99:y:2024:i:c:s1045235423001028
    DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2023.102646
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