Subsidizing farmworker hunger: Food assistance programs and the social reproduction of California farm labor

Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.08.017

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“…The term evokes the increasingly blurring edges between life and work in late capitalism, when the responsibility of social reproduction is individualized to the point that "life becomes work" (Winders & Smith, 2018, p. 878 my emphasis). Although sometimes critiqued as a class-specific concept (Smith & Winders, 2015)-as seen during the pandemic, working from home is indeed a class privilege that is also gendered and racialized-life's work also illuminates global workers' growing need to weather precariousness by increasing the time devoted to income generation beyond the living wage and decreasing the time spent in the care of social reproduction (Ebner & Johnson, 2020;Fernandez, 2018;Green, 2020;Katz, 1991;Marks, 2015;Minkoff-Zern, 2014). An attention to spatiality thus simultaneously reveals the shifting geographies of precarious work and forecasts a larger, longer-term crisis of capitalism.…”

Section: Geographies Of Social Reproduction: Current Approaches and N...mentioning

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Social Reproduction Theory: State of the field and new directions in geography

Rodríguez-Rocha

2021

Geography Compass

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Interest in social reproduction theory (SRT) has been revived in the in the last ten odd years. This paper positions SRT, and its refraction through a geographic lens, as particularly well placed to address emerging issues in the context of ongoing crises—economic, environmental and of care—which have been enhanced by the Covid‐19 pandemic. I present an overview of the Marxist‐feminist traditions that constitute the basis for modern SRT. Through a survey of recent literature, I discuss the potential for extending contemporary SRT through intersectionality theory and suggest the need to draw on theoretical insights originating in the global periphery towards a postcolonial, decolonial SRT. Finally, I contextualize social reproduction theories within geography and suggest three emerging areas of scholarship in which combining a geographic and SRT perspective would yield productive understandings of the current moment and signal towards the construction of alternative, livable futures. These areas are debt and the financialization of social reproduction under neoliberalism; a turn towards a socioecological understanding of reproduction; and resistance, transformation and visions of the future through a “conscious appropriation” of life’s work and life sustaining practices at large.

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Social Reproduction Theory: State of the field and new directions in geography

Rodríguez-Rocha

2021

Geography Compass

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“…The production, distribution, and consumption of food is organized around race, and many communities of color have not only been stripped of their access to the means of producing food (Mitchell, ; Slocum, ; Slocum & Cadieux, ; Slocum & Saldanha, ) but are also exploited as food workers and disproportionately lack access to healthy food (Alkon & Agyeman, ; Liu & Apollon, ). Migrant farmworkers in the United States, for example, face high rates of poverty and food insecurity as well as unsafe working and living conditions (Holmes, ; Minkoff‐Zern, , , ).…”

Section: The Agrarian Imaginary In the City: Falling Into The “Local mentioning

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The labor between farm and table: Cultivating an urban political ecology of agrifood for the 21st century

Coplen

2018

Geography Compass

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The variegated landscape of food production and consumption reveals a great deal about socionatural relations and processes of urbanization and globalization under capitalism. Food production has changed dramatically over time, shifting away (but never fully divorced) from the rural agrarian landscape to spaces that are characterized as industrial and/or urban. Workers transform nature at each stage in the food production process, not only on farms but also in processing plants, grocery stores, restaurants, and other spaces. This paper draws on urban political ecology (UPE) to position labor as central to understanding the socioecological relations embodied in food systems. It puts UPE in conversation with agrarian political economy, a decidedly un‐urban body of literature that nevertheless offers critical insight into the obstacles (and opportunities) that nature and labor pose to food systems development in an urbanizing world. Employing UPE's dialectic conception of humans and nature, this paper highlights the role that non‐agricultural and urban‐based food labor plays in an increasingly complex global political economy of agrifood. Seeing both the “labor” and “nature” of food from the farm all the way to the table can reveal the myriad transformations, exchanges, and socioecological relations operating within the food system.

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Essential Citizenship: Theorizing Practices of Women Agrifood Workers

Sarvasy

2024

The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Citizenship

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Subsidizing farmworker hunger: Food assistance programs and the social reproduction of California farm labor

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Social Reproduction Theory: State of the field and new directions in geography

Social Reproduction Theory: State of the field and new directions in geography

The labor between farm and table: Cultivating an urban political ecology of agrifood for the 21st century

Essential Citizenship: Theorizing Practices of Women Agrifood Workers

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