Agricultural workers and trade unions in the neoliberal food regime: capital–labour relations, conflicts over labour and the agroindustrial transformation of the sugarcane sector in São Paulo

In the academic and political debate about land grabbing agroindustrial transformations in neoliberal food regime effects on labour are neglected. response to this gap, paper focuses labour, unions, their bargaining power struggles these transformation processes. Empirically, I analyse of sugarcane sector state São Paulo between 2002 2016 by applying resource approach. The analysis shows that processes had mainly negative rural working class such as increased unemployment, a loss associational or less collective struggles; new resources could not compensate for this.