No. 2 (2021), Labor Frontiers
No. 2 (2021)

Agrarian Frontier Expansion and Conflicts over Labor: Labor Struggles in the Sugarcane Sector in São Paulo State in Brazil

Labor Frontiers
Published 2021-04-30
  • Jan Brunner
Jan Brunner
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Keywords

labor, trade unions, industrial agriculture, sugarcane, conflict, agrarian frontier, Brazil

Abstract

This article explores large-scale industrial agriculture and related conflicts over labor in Brazil. It does so through an analysis of the industrial transformation of the sugarcane sector in São Paulo state, a representative case of recent agricultural changes and their effects on wage workers, trade unions and their struggles.

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