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

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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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id	eprints-35300
recordtype	eprints
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/