Matthew Fischer-Daly
Biographic Data
| ID | 1155783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Fischer-Daly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Fischer-Daly |
| SIGNATURE | FISCHER-DALY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4860-0561 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Export Agribusiness, Multimodal Dispossession, and Livelihood Reconstitution in Baja California
Expanding California’s agribusiness model, the production of fresh fruits and vegetables in San Quintín, Baja California, represents a paradigmatic case of the growth of export commercial agriculture in Mexico. Through intensive use of labor, land, and water, this region contributes to the supply of fresh produce to US markets led by transnational food retailers. Grounded in ethnographic research, we interpret farmworkers’ experiences in San Quin…
Between labour control and worker empowerment
This paper analyses authoritarian innovations in the industrial relations arena in Mexico since 2018. Historically, corporatist ties with union elites allowed the government to control labour at the workplace level and resist substantive labour reforms at the national level through ‘ghost unions’ and ‘protection contracts’. Since the election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the left-oriented MORENA party, the government has implemented labour r…
Structuring Workers' Bargaining Power in Mexico's Strawberry Fields
Workers shut down production and transportation of strawberries during the peak of the 2015 harvest in San Quintín, Mexico, which supplies winter berries to US markets. In the years since the strike, strike-settlement wage increases have eroded, commitments to register workers in the national social security system fell far short, and no workers gained representation by a union in collective bargaining with their employer. This case analyses the …
Dignity and bargaining power
While solidarity is widely understood as key to worker capacity to improve terms and conditions of employment, the creation of solidarity has received less attention. This article advances the theory that dignity is the creative process, based on a psycho‐social understanding of dignity not as an outcome but an interpersonal exchange. Mutual recognition of each other's capacities to participate in social rules creates solidarity, thereby catalysi…
Human Dignity and Power
While precarious employment expands, instances of workers improving employment standards motivate examination of the dynamics of advancing decent work. This article analyzes cases of workers shifting from precarious toward decent work in U.S. agribusiness. Building on bargaining-power theory from industrial relations and human development theory from sociological philosophy, it finds that workers build power resources sequentially and by demandin…
Fissured Employment and Network Bargaining
For decades, direct employment relationships have been increasingly displaced by indirect employment relationships through networks of firms and layers of managerial control. The firm strategies driving these changes are organizational, geographic, and technological in nature and are facilitated by state policies. The resulting weakening of traditional forms of collective bargaining and worker power have led workers to counter by organizing broad…
Impunity of international labor rights violators and beneficiaries
Fissured Employment and Network Bargaining
For decades, direct employment relationships have been increasingly displaced by indirect employment relationships through networks of firms and layers of managerial control. The firm strategies driving these changes are organizational, geographic, and technological in nature and are facilitated by state policies. The resulting weakening of traditional forms of collective bargaining and worker power have led workers to counter by organizing broad…
Impunity of international labor rights violators and beneficiaries
Impunity of international labor rights violators and beneficiaries
Human Dignity and Power
While precarious employment expands, instances of workers improving employment standards motivate examination of the dynamics of advancing decent work. This article analyzes cases of workers shifting from precarious toward decent work in U.S. agribusiness. Building on bargaining-power theory from industrial relations and human development theory from sociological philosophy, it finds that workers build power resources sequentially and by demandin…
Fissured Employment and Network Bargaining
For decades, direct employment relationships have been increasingly displaced by indirect employment relationships through networks of firms and layers of managerial control. The firm strategies driving these changes are organizational, geographic, and technological in nature and are facilitated by state policies. The resulting weakening of traditional forms of collective bargaining and worker power have led workers to counter by organizing broad…
Structuring Workers' Bargaining Power in Mexico's Strawberry Fields
Workers shut down production and transportation of strawberries during the peak of the 2015 harvest in San Quintín, Mexico, which supplies winter berries to US markets. In the years since the strike, strike-settlement wage increases have eroded, commitments to register workers in the national social security system fell far short, and no workers gained representation by a union in collective bargaining with their employer. This case analyses the …
Dignity and bargaining power
While solidarity is widely understood as key to worker capacity to improve terms and conditions of employment, the creation of solidarity has received less attention. This article advances the theory that dignity is the creative process, based on a psycho‐social understanding of dignity not as an outcome but an interpersonal exchange. Mutual recognition of each other's capacities to participate in social rules creates solidarity, thereby catalysi…
Between labour control and worker empowerment
This paper analyses authoritarian innovations in the industrial relations arena in Mexico since 2018. Historically, corporatist ties with union elites allowed the government to control labour at the workplace level and resist substantive labour reforms at the national level through ‘ghost unions’ and ‘protection contracts’. Since the election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the left-oriented MORENA party, the government has implemented labour r…
Export Agribusiness, Multimodal Dispossession, and Livelihood Reconstitution in Baja California
Expanding California’s agribusiness model, the production of fresh fruits and vegetables in San Quintín, Baja California, represents a paradigmatic case of the growth of export commercial agriculture in Mexico. Through intensive use of labor, land, and water, this region contributes to the supply of fresh produce to US markets led by transnational food retailers. Grounded in ethnographic research, we interpret farmworkers’ experiences in San Quin…
Economics (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (4 works) · Bargaining power (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Collective bargaining (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works)