ABSTRACT
Cavite has experienced the most intense processes of urban and industrial development driven by foreign capital investment. This chapter explores some of the ways in which this experience has been inscribed on the social landscape, and particularly through local processes of labour market formation and regulation. It focuses on the provincial scale and the ways in which the local political economy. The chapter explores the relationship between the new industrial labour force and the province's agricultural sector. It prvoides a detailed account of the socioeconomic arrangements behind farming in one village in Cavite, located in the municipality of Tanza, including tenancy, cropping patterns, the labour process in farming, and social divisions of labour within both villages and households. The chapter examines the ways in which globalized development has intersected with farming activities through the transformation of the local labour market.
