Crafting Mass Dairy Production
Immigration and Community in Rural America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2291201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Garni (0000-0001-8599-2448, Kansas State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 244-269 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rural Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0112 • E-ISSN: 1549-0831 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ruso.12169 |
| OpenAlex | W2731699403 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 33 |
In many parts of rural America, agrofood producers compete for a larger share of global markets by mechanizing, deskilling, and flexibly relocating to reduce labor costs. They recruit new immigrant workers but sow transience rather than sustainable rural growth. The industrialization of U.S. dairy farming appears to be aligned with these processes, and yet the large-scale dairy farmers who have replaced small craft producers face a paradox: The more they rationalize production on their farms, the more vulnerable their herds become to stress and illness, compromising production. Focusing on three competing dairies in Kansas, I examine how farmers variously organize work among immigrant employees to promote herd health while expanding their operations. Evidence from 22 months of ethnographic research and repeated interviews with farm owners, managers, employees, and extension agents suggests that enhancing production requires promoting employee citizenship at work-especially among immigrant employees possessing the fewest citizenship rights outside of work. In contrast to the high labor turnover endemic to other forms of industrialized food production, the distinctive human-animal relations central to dairying encourage farm owners and employees to cooperate, with promising results for farms and rural communities
Business · Craft · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Industrialisation · Market economy · Political science · Production (economics · Work (physics · Agriculture and Farm Safety · Engineering · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Rural development and sustainability
Dignity at Work
The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems
Social structure and organizations
The Chicken Trail
How the Other Half Works
Immigration as industrial strategy in American meatpacking
Meat processing and Garden City, KS
Illegality at Work
Re-capturing bovine life
Pure and Modern Milk
Does the American Dairy Industry Fit the Meso-Corporatist Model
Neoliberalism at Work
Value-chain Agriculture and Debt Relations
Restructuring of the US Meat Processing Industry and New Hispanic Migrant Destinations
Restructuring America's Dairy Farms
Milking the Plains
What Difference Does Difference Make? Position and Privilege in the Field
Management Citizenship Behavior
You Still Takin' Notes?' Fieldwork and Problems of Informed Consent
Operationalizing Management Citizenship Behavior and Testing Its Impact on Employee Commitment, Satisfaction, and Mental Health
Ethnography's Warrants
The Great Agricultural Transition
Three Fragments From a Sociologist's Notebooks
Dairy Industrialization in the First Place
Beyond the Farmgate
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |