Producing cheap food and labor: migrations and agriculture in the capitalistic world-ecology
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World-ecology, Migrations, capitalism, agriculture, seasonal workersCopyright (c) 2016 Relaciones Internacionales
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Abstract
Through the perspective of world-ecology, one of the most recent approaches in International Relations, we aim to analyze global capitalism as an ecological project based on the appropriation of human and extra-human natures oriented to support the accumulation process. Agriculture, and its labor force, occupy therefore a central role in maintaining the world-system where global chains, international migrations and center-periphery relations contact and show how global processes occur there.
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the analysis of the current world-system through this innovative approach and then show how its structure and its crisis have articulated a highly internationalized production model whose most significant effect has been the generation of large cheap labor migration across the planet. It is proposed as well, an analysis at a local level to highlight some examples, because the organization of work at this territorial scale is constitutive of the global agricultural production.
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