Analyses transnational corporations, groups who resist them, and the primary context within which the relationship between transnational corporations and their opponents unfold: the state. Argues that globalization is a contested terrain in which the power of transnational corporations is...

Acknowledgement -- Introduction / Alessandro Bonanno and Steven Wolf -- The corporate domination of agri-food -- Is resistance futile? : how global agri-food attempts to co-opt the alternatives / Lawrence Busch -- Best practices : the artificial negativity of agri-food / Alessandro Bonanno --...

This book looks at labor in agriculture and food in a global era by studying salient characteristics of the conditions and use of labor in global agri-food. Written by experienced and also emerging scholars, the chapters present a wealth of empirical data and robust theorizations that allow...