Migrant workers, ‘modern slavery’ and the politics of representation in Italian tomato production
Migrant workers, ‘modern slavery’ and the politics of representation in Italian tomato production
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移民工人、“现代奴隶制”和意大利番茄生产中的代表政治
DOI：
10.1080/03085147.2019.1672426
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
R. Forin
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作者：
N. Howard;R. Forin
本文探讨了意大利“红色黄金”番茄的生产和市场化的代表性政治。它围绕着三个相互竞争的形象展开。第一种是由农业资本和零售推动的田园乡村的霸权形象。这是一种典型的“盲目崇拜”形象，它隐藏了劳动和剥削。第二个是它的反霸权的对立面，一个充满侮辱的农村，被剥削的工人居住，被国家忽视。在民间社会的推动下，这种形象与主流“现代废奴主义”中的许多人相似，并试图让大企业感到羞耻，从而追求更道德的资本主义。在我们看来，它重新诠释了（新）自由主义范式，而这种范式是它希望克服的剥削的基础。它也疏远了许多它声称要描绘的人。第三张图是前两张图的人种学替代图，它是我们在意大利南部福贾对负责番茄生产的农民、移民工人和劳动力经纪人进行实地调查后绘制的。它复杂而矛盾，描绘了恶劣的生活和工作条件，但比另一种选择要好，以及被剥削的工人，但仍然明白自己同意被剥削。
Abstract This paper examines representational politics in relation to the production and marketization of Italy's ‘red Gold’, the tomato. It centres around three competing images. The first, hegemonic image is of a bucolic countryside, pushed by agro-capital and retail. A stereotypically ‘fetishizing’ image, it hides both labour and its exploitation. The second is its counter-hegemonic opposite, of a countryside seething with indignity, populated by exploited workers, and neglected by the state. Advanced by civil society, this image parallels many within mainstream ‘modern abolitionism’ and seeks to shame big business into pursuing a more ethical capitalism. In our view, it re-inscribes the (neo)liberal paradigm that is foundational to the exploitation it wishes to overcome. It also alienates many of the people it purports to depict. The third image is an ethnographic alternative to the first two and is drawn from our fieldwork with the farmers, migrant workers and labour-brokers responsible for tomato production in Foggia, Southern Italy. Complex and contradictory, it depicts living and working conditions that are bad, but better than the alternative, and workers who are exploited, but nevertheless understand themselves as consenting to their exploitation.
人人繁荣：全球化时代的消费者行动主义
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发表时间：
2009
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影响因子：
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作者：
Hilton Matthew
通讯作者：
Hilton Matthew