Decent Work Deficits in Southern Agriculture

Measurements, Drivers and Strategies
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-3-86618-896-9
Verlag: Edition Rainer Hampp

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Labor and Globalization

Up to 60 percent of the Global South’s work force toils in agriculture. Most smallholders and waged agricultural workers labor under poor health, safety and environmental conditions. This volume explores - the extent of the decent work deficit with a focus on women in agriculture, - the drivers of the poor remuneration and working conditions - some strategies for mitigating the decent work deficits. Its contributors argue that the severity of the decent work deficits in agriculture calls for action. Given the divers contexts of agricultural work and the many factors reproducing the deficits, action is needed in a comprehensive as well as context-specific form. The contributors are academics from Brazil, Columbia, Germany, Ghana, India, Mexico and Pakistan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scherrer, Christoph

Verma, Santosh

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Christoph Scherrer, economist and political scientist, is Professor of Globalization & Politics at the University of Kassel, Executive Director of the International Center for Development and Decent Work and a member of the steering committee of the Global Labour University. / Santosh Verma is Assistant Professor at the School of Livelihoods and Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, India. He earned his PhD degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University.