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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.1080/03066150.2024.2443667
Titel (primär) The farm as digital factory: controlling labour and nature in digital agriculture
Autor Prause, L. ORCID logo
Quelle Journal of Peasant Studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
Department UPOL
Band/Volume 52
Heft 5
Seite von 907
Seite bis 925
Sprache englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Keywords Digital agriculture; digital factory; agrarian labour; South Africa
Abstract I develop the ‘digital factory farm' as a concept for understanding the shift from industrial to digital-industrial agriculture and its implications for managing and controlling agricultural labour. I argue that digital technologies on farms deepen the real subsumption of labour and nature. Additionally, these technologies provide new avenues for interlinking capital’s drive to reshape labour and nature. By analysing the digital factory farm in South Africa's fruit industry, I uncover the mechanisms through which digital technologies serve this dual function. The farm as digital factory can stabilise globalised food commodity chains and pose new challenges to farm workers’ resistance.
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Prause, L. (2025):
The farm as digital factory: controlling labour and nature in digital agriculture
J. Peasant Stud. 52 (5), 907 - 925 10.1080/03066150.2024.2443667