This article discusses the persistence of illegal labour mediation in Italian industrialized agricultural production despite a decade of legal and policy reforms. Focusing on the regions of Puglia and Basilicata during the so-called Mediterranean ‘refugee crisis’ (2011-2018), it analyses such mediation as a central infrastructure of contemporary capitalist agri-food supply chains, which both capitalizes on the value of labour reproduction, and contributes to adversely incorporating migrant workers into local agricultural labour markets in a context of increasingly globalized retail agriculture.
Caporalato Capitalism: Labour Brokerage and Agrarian Change in a Mediterranean Society / Raeymaekers T; Perrotta D. - In: THE JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES. - ISSN 1743-9361. - ELETTRONICO. - 0:(2022), pp. 1-22. [10.1080/03066150.2022.2072213]
Caporalato Capitalism: Labour Brokerage and Agrarian Change in a Mediterranean Society
Raeymaekers T;Perrotta D
2022
Abstract
This article discusses the persistence of illegal labour mediation in Italian industrialized agricultural production despite a decade of legal and policy reforms. Focusing on the regions of Puglia and Basilicata during the so-called Mediterranean ‘refugee crisis’ (2011-2018), it analyses such mediation as a central infrastructure of contemporary capitalist agri-food supply chains, which both capitalizes on the value of labour reproduction, and contributes to adversely incorporating migrant workers into local agricultural labour markets in a context of increasingly globalized retail agriculture.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.