The Organization of Disorganization in Agricultural Labor Markets

Greta R. Krippner

Politics & Society, 2001, vol. 29, issue 3, 363-383

Abstract: This article examines the organizational prerequisites of competitive labor markets through an account of the restructuring of Mexico's export tomato industry in the 1980s and 1990s. Agricultural labor markets are typically taken as paradigm cases of competitive labor markets, the closest real-world approximation to the spot market of economic theory. Yet, this case demonstrates that such markets are deeply structured through the activities of producer associations and the state, suggesting that disorganization in a labor market can only be sustained through organization.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1177/0032329201029003003

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