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Taylor & Francis Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture The Social Costs of Eating Fresh 2014 Edition by Joerg Gertel, Sarah Ruth Sippel
Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of this depends on migrating workers for seasonal labour, including from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Latin America. This book is the first to address global agro-migration complexes across the region. It is argued that both intensive agricultural production and related working conditions are highly dynamic. Regional patterns have developed from small-scale family farming to become an industrialized part of the global agri-food system, which increasingly depends on seasonal labour. Simultaneously, consumer demand for year-round supply has caused relocations of the industry within Europe; areas of intensive greenhouse production have moved further south and even into North Africa. The authors investigate this Mediterranean agri-food system that transcends borders and is largely constituted by invisible seasonal work. By revealing the story of food commodities loaded with implications of private profit seeking, exploitation, exclusion and multiple insecurities, the book unmasks the hidden costs of fresh food provisioning. Three case study areas are considered in detail: the French region of Provence, a traditional centre of fresh fruit and vegetable cultivation; the Spanish Almeria region where intensive production has, accelerated dramatically since the 1970s; and Morocco where counter-seasonal production has recently been expanding. The book also includes commentaries that refer to complemetary insights on US-Mexico, Philippines-Canada and South Pacific mobilities. Table of contents :- Part 1: Introduction 1. Seasonality and Temporality in Intensive Agriculture Joerg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel 2. B/ordering the Mediterranean: Free Trade, Fresh Fruits and Fluid Fixity Marc Boeckler and Christian Berndt Part 2: France: Traditional Centre of Fruit and Vegetable Production 3. Shared Insecurities? Farmers and Workers in Bouches-du-Rhone Sarah Ruth Sippel and Joerg Gertel 4. Super/markets: Beyond Buyer-drivenness in Southern France Joerg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel 5. Fruit Production in France and Argentina: Globalizing Standards and Labour Markets Annie Lamanthe and Victor Rau 6. The Transnational Recruitment of Temporary Latino Workers in European Agriculture Beatrice Mesini 7. Sans-papiers: Self-censored Social Identities of Farm Workers in Southern France Swanie Potot Commentary: Neoliberal Market Mystifications in the Social Costs of Eating Fresh - Philippines-Canada Comparisons Pauline Gardiner Barber Part 3: Spain: Symbol and Embodiment of Industrial Agriculture 8. The Political Economy of El Ejido: Genealogy of the 2000 Conflict Ubaldo Martinez Veiga 9. The Industrial Agriculture: A 'Model for Modernization' from Almeria? Jose A. Aznar-Sanchez, Luis J. Belmonte-Urena and Juan J. Tapia-Leon 10. Mobility Partnerships and Circular Migration: Managing Seasonal Migration to Spain Katja Lindner and Till Kathmann 11. 'Origin Matters': Working Conditions of Moroccans and Romanians in the Greenhouses of Almeria Pablo Pumares and Dominique Jolivet 12. 'We Don't have Women in Boxes': Channelling Seasonal Mobility of Female Farmworkers between Morocco and Andalusia Emmanuelle Hellio Commentary: From Fresh Produce to Poultry - Shifting Labour Regimes in the Global Agri-food System Douglas H. Constance Part 4: Morocco: Booming Sites of Counter Seasonal Production 13. Which Agricultural Policy for which Food Security in Morocco? Najib Akesbi 14. Facilitating the Export of Fruit and Vegetables: The Role of State Institutions in Morocco Mads Barbesgaard and Niels Fold 15. Disrupted Livelihoods? Intensive Agriculture and Labour Markets in the Moroccan Souss Sarah Ruth Sippel 16. Labour and Gender Relations in Moroccan Strawberry Culture Juana Moreno Nieto 17. Between Hope and Disillusionment: The Migration of Nomadic Pastoralists to Europe Mohamed Mahdi 18. Border Makers: Clandestine Migration from Morocco Mustapha El Miri Commentary: New Migration and New Communities - Social Changes Born from Agricultural Changes Peggy Petrzelka Part 5: Conclusion 19. Comparative Perspective: Insights from New Zealand's Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme Nick Lewis 20. Epilogue: The Social Costs of Eating Fresh Joerg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel