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Chapter 2 Capital mobility and new workspaces in fruit-producing regions of Brazil and Argentina

Globalization and the Time–Space Reorganization

ISBN: 978-0-85724-317-1, eISBN: 978-0-85724-318-8

Publication date: 24 February 2011

Abstract

This chapter probes the issue of capital mobility and its implications in the context of the globalization of the fresh fruit sector. In particular, it explores the relationship between productive capital and labor in two different Latin American regions: the Northeast of Brazil and Patagonia in Argentina. Employing a comparative approach, it studies the impact that the insertion of local production into global circuits has on local firms and labor. These relatively culturally and geographically distant locations are affected by similar phenomena created by the globalization of agrifood. Relevant among then are the marginalization of labor and a weak labor structure. While there has been the growth of local firms, this growth has not erased important weaknesses.

Citation

Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti, J., Bendini, M.I., da Mota, D.M. and Graciela Steimbreger, N. (2011), "Chapter 2 Capital mobility and new workspaces in fruit-producing regions of Brazil and Argentina", Bonanno, A. and Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti, J. (Ed.) Globalization and the Time–Space Reorganization (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol. 17), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 65-81. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1057-1922(2011)0000017005

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