1. Robert M. Bridi
Labour Control in theTobacco Agro-Spaces:
Migrant Agricultural Workers in South-Western Ontario
Antipode
2013

2. The
increasing
flow of
migrant
workers
Introduction

3. Argument
The labour control regime is conditioned exogenously
by multi-scalar factors, and generated endogenously
at the point of production

4. Sections
The articulation of the capital-labour relation by
labour process theorists and labour geographers

5. Sections
The articulation of the capital-labour relation by
labour process theorists and labour geographers
•The Marxian conceptualization of the capital-labour relation

6. Sections
The articulation of the capital-labour relation by
labour process theorists and labour geographers
•The Marxian conceptualization of the capital-labour relation
• Labour process theory

7. Sections
The articulation of the capital-labour relation by
labour process theorists and labour geographers
•The Marxian conceptualization of the capital-labour relation
• Labour process theory
• Labour geography

8. Sections
The articulation of the capital-labour relation by
labour process theorists and labour geographers
The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and
the tobacco industry in South-Western Ontario

9. Sections
Tobacco growing areas in South-Western Ontario (source: Ramsey et al.
2003; reproduced with permission from The Great Lakes Geographer/
Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario)

10. Sections
Canadian legal sales of cigarettes, 2000-2010 (source:
StatisticsCanada 2011)

11. Sections
The articulation of the capital-labour relation by
labour process theorists and labour geographers
The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and
the tobacco industry in South-Western Ontario
Outline of the methodology and the empirical
scope

12. Sections
The articulation of the capital-labour relation by
labour process theorists and labour geographers
The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and
the tobacco industry in South-Western Ontario
Outline of the methodology and the empirical
scope
• Intensive research design

13. Sections
The articulation of the capital-labour relation by
labour process theorists and labour geographers
The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and
the tobacco industry in South-Western Ontario
Outline of the methodology and the empirical
scope
• Intensive research design
• Semi-structured interactive interviews

14. Sections
The articulation of the capital-labour relation by
labour process theorists and labour geographers
The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and
the tobacco industry in South-Western Ontario
Outline of the methodology and the empirical
scope
Empirical examination of the multiple modes of
labour control

15. Sections
The articulation of the capital-labour relation by
labour process theorists and labour geographers
The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and
the tobacco industry in South-Western Ontario
Outline of the methodology and the empirical
scope
Empirical examination of the multiple modes of
labour control
•The sphere of circulation

16. Sections
The articulation of the capital-labour relation by
labour process theorists and labour geographers
The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and
the tobacco industry in South-Western Ontario
Outline of the methodology and the empirical
scope
Empirical examination of the multiple modes of
labour control
•The sphere of circulation
•The sphere of production

17. Academic
Contribution
to the
Understanding
of the
Capital-Labour
Relation
AcademicContribution
Labour Process
Theory
Labour
Geography

18. ThankYou
Comments
Questions
Political Implications

19. Questions and Comments
rmbridi@gmail.com