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
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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