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5 - The Post-War Labour Regime and the Labour Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2025

Adrian Smith
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University of Sussex
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This chapter introduces the post-War labour regime that has been dominant in the glasshouse agrifood sector. It highlights the important, but regionally differentiated, role of migrant labour. It examines the organisation of the labour regime and the labour process in the two regions up until the UK’s departure from the European Union.

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Fields of Glass
Labour Regimes, Techno-Science and Biopolitics in Agrifood Value Chains
, pp. 94 - 124
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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