The New Industrial Agriculture
The Regional Integration of Specialty Crop Production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4043531 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Fitzsimmons (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 334 |
| Publication date | 1986-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/143829 |
| OpenAlex | W2331705923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 51 |
| References cited | 17 |
Studies within the theoretical framework of “the new industrial geography” have depended on manufacturing and service industries, overlooking the primary sector. When compared with manufacture, agriculture exhibits similarities and distinctions which reveal the particular historical role of natural processes and cycles in restricting the conditions of profitable production, systematically distinguishing agriculture from manufacturing and encouraging subsectoral differentiation around particular commodity complexes. This case study of specialty crop production shows that agriculture is also being restructured—vertically integrated by the concentration of control (within marketing and processing firms) over the production process at the same time as production activities within the farm and the sector are vertically disintegrated through a complex web of capacity and specialty subcontracting. Discovery of these integrated processes can lead to new understanding of the forces which produce agricultural regions
Agricultural economics · Agricultural science · Agriculture · Agroforestry · Business · Crop · Crop production · Economics · Geography · Production (economics) · Specialty · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Diverse academic and cultural studies · Environmental Science · Forestry · Historical and Environmental Studies · Medicine
Geography and the Global Environment
Seeking a Richer Harvest
Temporal and spatial dimensions of knowledge
Constrained Choice and Ethical Dilemmas in Land Management
The illusion of control
Towards an alternative logic of technological change
Extending the boundaries of climate change research
A political economy perspective on the expansion of New Zealand livestock farming, 1960–1984 — Part I. Agricultural policy
Shifting plates in the agrifood landscape
Revising the research agenda on agricultural policy in developed market economies
Reglobalisation of New Zealand's food and fibre system
Shifting agrifood systems
Weeds in action
Opening the boundaries of the rural experience
Agricultural geography
Food and fibre production under capitalism
The farm as digital factory
From Settlement to Fordism
Across the Great Divide
"Recasting the "Agrarian Question
Globalization, Sustainability, and Apple Orcharding, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
Resources and restructuring in the international solid wood products industry
AgTech’ and the restructuring of agrifood labour regimes
Scaling up to address new challenges to conservation on US farmland
How does farmers lease more agricultural land affect pesticide inputs? Microscopic evidence from Chinese farmers
The Nature of Produced Nature
The Matter of Nature
Industrialization of Agricultural Production and the Role of Large‐scale Farms in Us Agriculture
The Spatial Restructuring of Farm Types in the English Counties, 1976–1985
The hiring hall, the farm labor contractor, and the state
Embedded Pesticide Use
Commentary
Coming out of the shadows? Housing conditions of irregular migrant workers in Spanish agricultural enclaves
Trade liberalization, agro-food politics and the globalization of agriculture
Back to the Land
Shifts in Food Regimes, Regulation, and Producer Cooperatives
Fordism, Flexible Specialization and Agri-Industrial Restructuring
Controlling Labor Commitment in Brazil's Global Agriculture
Lean and Mean
Midwestern Agriculture in Us Fordism
The Trouble with 'Organic Lite' in California
The real subsumption of nature and cryopolitics
Taking Nature - Culture Hybrids Seriously in Agricultural Geography
Taylorism Comes to the Fields
Politics, Locality, and Economic Restructuring
Hydroponic Capital
Agri-Food Systems and the Anthropocene
Nothing to Learn? Labor Learning in California's Farmwork
Reconfiguring the rural or fording the divide
Flexible for whom? Flex crops, crises, fixes and the politics of exchanging use values in US corn production
Fields of dreams
Regional Dynamics
Production, work, territory
Citizenship, gender, and work
The second industrial divide
The Agrarian Question and Reformism in Latin America
Farm Workers and Agri-Business in California, 1947-1960
Theories of Surplus Value
Work and Politics
The Increasing Importance of the Physical Conditions in Determining the Utilization of Land for Agricultural and Forest Production in the United States
Breaking the Land
Industrial Organization and the Logic of Intra-Metropolitan Location, III
Industry and Space
Industrial Organization and the Logic of Intra-Metropolitan Location
Manufacturing Green Gold
The Large Farm as a Stereotype
Paradoxes of agricultural unionism in California
| Unique citing works | 51 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,34 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2026 (39) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 50 |