Recently published in Agriculture and Human Values, in this article Bao-Nguyet Dang investigates the emergence and transformation of wage labour within the family farm, focusing particularly on the northeastern Vietnam-China border area.
She argues that the emergence of wage labour on the family farm has social justice implications on how family farms organize their daily social reproduction and production functions.
When situated in a cross-border area, Bao-Nguyet Dang highlights the politics of illegalization that wage labour on family farms brings to the fore, and demonstrates how these dynamics have facilitated further capitalist expansion while exacerbating the injustices experienced by laborers and their families who stay behind.
Read the full paper online - 'Farmer-farmworkers: cross-border wage labor in northeastern Vietnam-southwestern China region'. Agriculture and Human Values. July 2025.
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