Globalization and the time-space reorganization

This volume explores capital mobility under globalization by studying some of its salient consequences in agriculture and food in North and South America. It probes the manner in which capital mobility alters the organization of the temporal and spatial dimensions that characterize the reproduction...

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Other Authors Bonanno, Alessandro, Cavalcanti, Josefa Salete Barbosa
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2011.
SeriesResearch in rural sociology and development ; v. 17.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780857243188
ISSN1057-1922 ;
DOI10.1108/S1057-1922(2011)17
Physical Description1 online resource (viii, 250 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Alessandro Bonanno, Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti
  • ch. 1. Labor in global commodity chains : the organization of labor in export grape / Ben Selwyn
  • ch. 2. Capital mobility and new workspaces in fruit-producing regions of Brazil and Argentina / Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti, Mónica Isabel Bendini, Dalva Maria da Mota, Norma Graciela Steimbreger
  • ch. 3. Labor mobility in the field of agriculture and food globalization / Gustavo Henrique de Souza Dias, Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti
  • ch. 4. The changing character of small town Ontario : transnational capital/labour flows in a not so globalized world / João-Paulo Bola Sousa
  • ch. 5. Free trade of coffee, exodus of coffee workers : the case of the Southern Mexican border region of the state of Chiapas / Marie-Christine Renard
  • ch. 6. Global productive capital mobility : the case of Chilean farmed Atlantic salmon / Douglas H. Constance, M. Kirk Jentoft
  • Trade and poverty : changes in farming and community in NAFTA's first decade / Pablo Alvarez, Jason Barton, Kathy Baylis, Marybel Soto-Gomez
  • ch. 8. Conclusions : the contradictions of the reconfiguration of time and space / Alessandro Bonanno, Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti.