"Employing original fieldwork, historical analysis, and sociological theory, Sekine and Bonanno probe how Japan's food and agriculture sectors have been shaped by the global push toward privatization and corporate power, known in the social science literature as neoliberalism. They also examine...

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...