Labour Process and Workers’ Bargaining Power in Export Grape Production, North East Brazil
Labour Process and Workers’ Bargaining Power in Export Grape Production, North East Brazil
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巴西东北部出口葡萄生产中的劳动流程和工人的议价能力
DOI：
10.1111/j.1471-0366.2007.00155.x
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
B. Selwyn
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作者：
B. Selwyn
本文利用全球商品链(GCC)框架对巴西东北部圣弗朗西斯科河谷出口葡萄生产中的劳工制度进行了调查。北方零售商的严格要求，加上生产商瞄准出口窗口的能力，导致劳动力流程日益复杂。虽然许多GCC关于出口农业的文献得出结论，劳动力相对无能为力，但这篇文章提出了一个相当不同的情况。为了应对零售商的需求，需要不断升级生产，这给了工人战略上的筹码，再加上农村工会组织强大而持续的传统，这意味着他们能够从出口农场中获得重大让步。
This article uses the Global Commodity Chain (GCC) framework to investigate labour regimes in export grape production in the Sao Francisco (SF) valley, North East Brazil. A combination of strict northern retailer requirements and producers’ ability to target export windows leads to an increasingly complex labour process. Whilst much GCC literature focusing on export agriculture concludes that labour is relatively powerless, this article presents a rather different case. The need to upgrade production continually in response to retailers’ demands gives workers strategic leverage which, together with a strong and continuing tradition of rural trade union organization, means that they have been able to extract significant concessions from exporting farms.