Séminaire Atelier 1/Lunch Seminar – Oane Visser (Erasmus University Rotterdam) professeur invité, ““Working like machines”: Technological upgrading and labour in the Dutch Horticultural chain.” de Oane Visser, Karin A. Siegmann, Petar Ivošević

Le Lunch Seminar et l’atelier 1 du Ladyss organisent conjointement une séance avec Oane Visser. Elle portera sur les enjeux d’évolution du travail dans l’agriculture dans le cadre de l’automatisation des filières et dans une perspective d’upgrading social des chaînes globales de valeur.

“Working like machines”: Technological upgrading and labour in the Dutch Horticultural chain.

Oane Visser, Karin A. Siegmann, Petar Ivošević

This presentation engages with the role of technological upgrading for work in agriculture, a sector commonly disregarded in debates about the future of work. Foregrounding migrant work in Dutch horticulture, it explores how technologicalinnovation is connected to the scope and security of employment. Besides, it proposes a heuristic that connects workers’ experience to sectoral dynamics and the wider agri-food chain. It is based on data from a small-scale qualitative study with different actors in the Dutch agri-food sector through the lens of the global value chain literature. Nuancing pessimistic predictions of widespread technological unemployment, we find product upgrading into high value-added products, and process upgrading, such as through climate control in greenhouses, to offer the potential for more and secure employment. However, higher work intensity and the dismantling of entitlements for rest and reproduction to ‘make people work like machines’ represent the underbelly of these dynamics.

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