{"product_id":"9783030745110","title":"Migrant Farmworkers in 'Plastic Factories’: Investigating Work-Life Struggles","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMigrant Farmworkers in 'Plastic Factories’: Investigating Work-Life Struggles\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003ePiro, Valeria\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides a fine-grained ethnographic examination of the everyday negotiations and conflicts taking place in greenhouses and packinghouses in an agricultural district in south-eastern Italy (Sicily). In a highly competitive global scenario, driven by multinational corporations and large retailers, small and medium-sized farms largely rely on migrant labour to fill their demand for casualized, flexible and low-paid jobs. By taking the reader into the ‘plastic factories’ where the author was hired as a farmworker, this book sheds light on the struggles – around the employment contract, the wage and the body – which take place every day between employers and employees. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book contributes to broadening the understanding of the dynamics innervating food production worldwide by recognizing the pivotal role of migrant labour not only as a \u003ci\u003efactor\u003c\/i\u003e in the restructuring of global supply chains, but also as an \u003ci\u003eactor \u003c\/i\u003eshaping these processes through its own unpredictable strategies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Pivot\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2022-06-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030745110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-74509-7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 151\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47531302289548,"sku":"9783030745110","price":62.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030745110.jpg?v=1776051524","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030745110","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}