Format:
1 online resource (259 pages)
ISBN:
9780857243188
Series Statement:
Research in Rural Sociology and Development Ser. v.17
Content:
Explores capital mobility under globalization by studying some of its salient consequences in agriculture and food in North and South America. This title probes the manner in which capital mobility alters the organization of the temporal and spatial dimensions that characterize the reproduction of capital.
Content:
FRONT COVER -- GLOBALIZATION AND THE TIME-SPACE REORGANIZATION: CAPITAL MOBILITY IN AGRICULTURE AND FOOD IN THE AMERICAS -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- SPEEDS OF CAPITAL MOBILITY -- CAPITAL MOBILITY IS A CONSTANT COMPONENT OF THE EXPANSION OF CAPITALISM -- SPACE -- TIME -- TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIAL RELATIONS -- FORDISM AND THE NATION-STATE-MEDIATED TIME/SPACE RELATION -- THE GLOBAL ERA -- THE CRISIS OF THE STATE OR THE CRISIS OF THE FORDIST NATION STATE -- THE ORGANIZATION OF THE VOLUME -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART I: SPACE AND TIME REORGANIZATION IN SOUTH AMERICA -- CHAPTER 1 WORKERS IN GLOBAL COMMODITY CHAINS: THE ORGANIZATION OF LABOUR IN EXPORT GRAPE PRODUCTION -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2 CAPITAL MOBILITY AND NEW WORKSPACES IN FRUIT-PRODUCING REGIONS OF BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3 LABOR MOBILITY IN THE FIELD OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD GLOBALIZATION -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART II: SPACE AND TIME REORGANIZATION IN NORTH AMERICA -- CHAPTER 4 THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF SMALL TOWN ONTARIO: TRANSNATIONAL CAPITAL/LABOUR FLOWS IN A NOT-SO-GLOBALIZED-WORLD -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5 FREE TRADE OF COFFEE, EXODUS OF COFFEE WORKERS: THE CASE OF THE SOUTHERN MEXICAN BORDER REGION OF THE STATE OF CHIAPAS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6 GLOBAL PRODUCTIVE CAPITAL MOBILITY: THE CASE OF CHILEAN FARMED ATLANTIC SALMON -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7 TRADE AND POVERTY: CHANGES IN FARMING AND COMMUNITY IN NAFTA'S FIRST DECADE -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE REVIEW -- METHODS.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857243171
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780857243171
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=662377
