7. The Global Fresh Fruit and Vegetable System: An Industrial Organization Analysis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction: Agro-Food System Restructuring-Unity in Diversity 1
6. PART I. State-Level Restructuring
7. 1. Japanese and South Korean Agricultural Restructuring in Comparative and Global Perspective 21
8. 2. Sweden's 1990 Food Policy Reform: From Democratic Corporatism to Neoliberalism 53
9. 3. Agricultural Change in the Semiperiphery: The Murray-Darling Basin, Australia 76
10. PART II. Sectoral Restructuring
11. 4. Finance Capital and Food System Restructuring: National Incorporation of Global Dynamics 107
12. 5. Industrial and Labor Market Transformation in the U.S. Meatpacking Industry 129
13. 6. The Politics of Globalization in Rural Mexico: Campesino Initiatives to Restructure the Agricultural Credit System 145
14. PART III. Global Region Restructuring
15. 7. The Global Fresh Fruit and Vegetable System: An Industrial Organization Analysis 173
16. 8. Comparative Advantages and Disadvantages in Latin American Nontraditional Fruit and Vegetable Exports 190
17. 9. The Restructuring of Third World Agro-Exports: Changing Production Relations in the Dominican Republic 214
18. PART IV. Common, Contradictory, and Contingent Forces
19. 10. Is the Technical Model of Agriculture Changing Radically? 241
20. 11. Distance and Durability: Shaky Foundations of the World Food Economy 258
21. 12. Global Restructuring: Some Lines of Inquiry 277
22. Index 301