Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066150.2024.2443667 |
| Title (Primary) | The farm as digital factory: controlling labour and nature in digital agriculture |
| Author | Prause, L.
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| Source Titel | Journal of Peasant Studies |
| Year | 2025 |
| Department | UPOL |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Page From | 907 |
| Page To | 925 |
| Language | 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. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=31581 |
| 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 |
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