rural livelihoods in the global south (f8017s) - University of Sussex

Week 7: Globalisation: trade and working for global markets
This week will be the first of two weeks examining different aspects of trade, and its impact
on rural lives. Firstly, we consider the impact of globalisation and trade on poverty and
inequality. We also consider some of the broader social changes associated with working
for global markets.
Core readings (to be divided in class)
Barrientos, Stephanie et al (2005) ‘Gender, work and vulnerability in African horticulture’,
IDS Bulletin 36(2): 74-79.
Bene C et al (2010) ‘“Trade Matters in the Fight Against Poverty”: Narratives, Perceptions,
and (Lack of) Evidence in the Case of Fish Trade in Africa’, World Development 38
(7): 933–954. [don’t be put off by all the statistics!]
Challies ERT and WE Murray (2011) ‘The interaction of global value chains and rural
livelihoods’, Journal of Agrarian Change, 11(1): 29-59.
De Neve G (2005) Weaving for IKEA in south India: Subcontracting, labour markets and
gender relations in a global value chain, in C Fuller Globalising India [e-copy
available on Study Direct]
De Neve G and G Carswell (2103) T-shirts and Tumblers: caste, politics and industrial
work in Tiruppur’s textile belt, Tamilnadu Contributions to Indian Sociology (Study
Direct)
Dolan, C. and J. Humphrey. 2000. ‘Governance and trade in fresh vegetables: the impact
of UK supermarkets on the African horticultural industry’. Journal of Development
Studies 37(2): 147-76.
Elmhirst, R. (2007) Tigers and gangsters: masculinities and feminized migration in
Indonesia. Population, Space and Place, 13 (3). pp. 225-238
Kritzinger, A, S Barrientos and H Rossouw (2004) ‘Global Production and Flexible
Employment in South African Horticulture: Experiences of Contract Workers in Fruit
Exports’, Sociologia Ruralis 44:17-39.
Michelson H, T Reardon and F Perez (2012) ‘Small farmers and big retail: Trade-offs of
supplying supermarkets in Nicaragua’ World Development, 40(2 ): 342-354
Minten B et al (2009) Global Retail Chains and Poor Farmers: Evidence from Madagascar,
World Development 37(11): 1728–1741.
Ortiz S and S Aparicio (2007) How Labourers Fare in Fresh Fruit Export Industries: Lemon
Production in Northern Argentina Journal of Agrarian Change 7(3): 382-404
Rao E and M Qaim (2011) ‘Supermarkets, farm household income and poverty: insights
from Kenya’, World Development 39(5): 784-796 [very statistical! Maybe cut]
Further readings
Bardhan, P. (2006) Globalization and Rural Poverty World Development 34(8): 1393-1404.
Barrientos, S., 2001, Gender, Flexibility and Global Value Chains, IDS Bulletin 32 (3).
Barrientos, Stephanie and Andrienetta Kritzinger. 2004. "Squaring the Circle: Global
Production and the Informalization of Work in South African Fruit Exports." Journal
of International Development 16:81-92.
Dolan C and John Humphrey, 2004, Governance and Trade I Fresh Vegetables: The
Impact of UK Supermarkets on the African Horticulture Industry, Environment and
Planning A, 36 (3), 491-509.
Dolan, C 2004, On Farm and Packhouse: Employment at the Bottom of a Global Value
Chain, Rural Sociology, 69 (1).
Dolan, Catherine, John Humphrey and Carla Harriss-Pascal. 1999. "Horticulture
Commodity Chains: The Impact of the UK Market on the African Fresh Vegetable
Industry." IDS Working Paper 96.
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