ABSTRACT
The emergence of a truly global economy in the 1970s and the need to understand the subsequent changes in economic structure provided the impetus for this synthesis of the sociology of agriculture. The book offers the first formulations of a political economy theory that explains the transnational social and production relations of food and agriculture. Drawing upon studies of labour, technology, the state and gender, the contributors put forward a basis for reassessing and restating the intellectual framework of agriculture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|78 pages
Agriculture and Agri-industry in the New National and International Divisions of Labor
part II|57 pages
Agricultural Crisis and the Restructuring of Agriculture and Agri-industry
part III|42 pages
The Political Economy of the Technological Transformation of Agri-food Science and Technology
part IV|100 pages
Agriculture and the State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
part V|51 pages
The Political Economy of Gender: Women and Agriculture