Introduction

The emergence of a truly global economy in the 1970s and the need to understand the subsequent changes in economic structure provided the impetus for this synthesis of the sociology of agriculture.

About the Book

The book offers the first formulations of a political economy theory that explains the transnational social and production relations of food and agriculture.

Contributors and Approach

Drawing upon studies of labour, technology, the state and gender, the contributors put forward a basis for reassessing and restating the intellectual framework of agriculture.