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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institution SOAS, University of London
collection SOAS Research Online
language English
language_search English
topic H Social Sciences (General)
S Agriculture (General)
description 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.
format Journal Article
author Pattenden, Jonathan
author_facet Pattenden, Jonathan
Campling, Liam
Castañón Ballivián, Enrique
Gras, Carla
Lerche, Jens
O'Laughlin, Bridget
Oya, Carlos
Pérez Niño, Helena
Sinha, Shreya
authorStr Pattenden, Jonathan
author_letter Pattenden, Jonathan
author2 Campling, Liam
Castañón Ballivián, Enrique
Gras, Carla
Lerche, Jens
O'Laughlin, Bridget
Oya, Carlos
Pérez Niño, Helena
Sinha, Shreya
author2Str Campling, Liam
Castañón Ballivián, Enrique
Gras, Carla
Lerche, Jens
O'Laughlin, Bridget
Oya, Carlos
Pérez Niño, Helena
Sinha, Shreya
title Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour
publisher Wiley
publishDate 2021
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/35300/