1. Robert M. Bridi
Labour Control in the Tobacco 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:
Statistics Canada 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
Academic Contribution
Labour Process
Theory
Labour
Geography

18. Thank You
Comments
Questions
Political Implications

19. Questions and Comments
rmbridi@gmail.com