Towards a New Political Economy of Agriculture

by Frederick H. Buttel, William H. Friedland, Lawrence Busch

Book Overview

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. The book offers the first formulations of a political economy theory that explains the transnational social and production relations of food and agriculture. Drawing upon studies of labour, technology, the state and gender, the contributors put forward...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367212005
• ISBN13: 9780367212001
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages