At the cutting edge : precarious work in Brazil's sugar and ethanol industry

Garvey, Brian and Barreto, Maria Joseli; Lambert, Robert and Herod, Andrew, eds. (2016) At the cutting edge : precarious work in Brazil's sugar and ethanol industry. In: Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work. E. Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 166-200. ISBN 9781781954942

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Abstract

The late geographer Milton Santos interpreted the changing Brazilian landscape as a dynamic social product of work, both past and present. What happened at each specific site was affected by previous practices and by their link to the globalized systems into which these sites were incorporated. 'Space', he wrote (1978, p.138), 'is a witness to a moment in the mode of production in these concrete manifestations; it is where some processes adapt themselves to pre-existing forms, while other create new forms that are inserted'. His words resonate across the swaying stands of sugarcane, blood red soils and cloudless skies surrounding the biofuel refinery in Brazil's Sao Paulo State where we base our study of precarious work in the production of sugar-derived ethanol.

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Garvey, Brian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1931-8679 and Barreto, Maria Joseli; Lambert, Robert and Herod, Andrew
  • Item type:Book Section
    ID code:60457
    Dates:
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    25 March 2016
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    Notes:This is a draft chapter. The final version is available in Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work : ethnographies of accommodation and resistance edited by Robert Lambert and Andrew Herod, published in 2016, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. The material cannot be used for any other purpose without further permission of the publisher, and is for private use only.
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Work, Organisation and Employment
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:18 Apr 2017 11:10
    Last modified:21 Nov 2024 01:27
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/60457
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