Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour

Main author: Pattenden, Jonathan
Other authors: Campling, Liam
Castañón Ballivián, Enrique
Gras, Carla
Lerche, Jens
O'Laughlin, Bridget
Oya, Carlos
Pérez Niño, Helena
Sinha, Shreya
Format: Journal Article           
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Summary: Covid-19 generated a crisis in capitalism, but not of capitalism. Capitalism reproduces itself in crisis and in ways that have significant but uneven impacts on the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. This article explores preliminary studies of how Covid-19 has affected agrarian social formations in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the farmers, petty commodity producers, labourers and agribusinesses who populate them. It considers some of the implications for wage-labour, agriculture, accumulation and social reproduction including care work. And it briefly considers Covid-19's political impacts—in terms of the role of the state and possibilities for challenging capitalism, its violence and its ecological crisis.
Other authors: Campling, Liam, Castañón Ballivián, Enrique, Gras, Carla, Lerche, Jens, O'Laughlin, Bridget, Oya, Carlos, Pérez Niño, Helena, Sinha, Shreya
Language: English
Published: Wiley 2021
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