Pennies Per Pound: How the Agricultural Sector Keeps Food Cheap and Farmworkers Exploited
Abstract
Agribusiness implements this strategy of myth disguised as
Enlightenment in order to keep migrant farmworkers
marginalized and exploited. Agribusiness plays a central role
in spreading myths about the agricultural system that have
since become regarded as truths and have resulted in the
invisibility of migrant laborers. The history of governmental
programs, such as the infamous Bracero and H-2A programs,
outlines how the government has also contributed to this
absence of migrant farmworkers in public discourse. The
agricultural system, mainly composed of agribusiness and the
government, has lead to strong cases of structural violence
against agricultural laborers.