The Wages of Modernization: A Review of the Literature on Temporary Labor Arrangements in Brazilian Agriculture
1981; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 16; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0023879100033392
ISSN1542-4278
Autores Tópico(s)Rural Development and Agriculture
ResumoIn two decades, Brazil has shed the image of a stagnant agrarian state and emerged as one of the world's largest agricultural exporters. The price of this metamorphosis has come high: land, resource, and capital concentration; massive rural-urban migration; shortfalls in domestic food supply; and ecological deterioration along the expanding agricultural frontier. Major transformations in the structure of agricultural production have accompanied these changes, and they have led to new patterns in the organization of agricultural work and associated social relations in production. Perhaps the most visible social product of agricultural modernization has been the temporary wage laborer, known commonly in Brazil as the boia fria.
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