2025-01-152025-01-152020-03Reigada Olaizola, A., Castro, C.d. y Gadea Montesinos, E. (2020). The devaluation of female labour in fruit and vegetable packaging plants in Spanish Mediterranean agriculture. Organization, 27 (2), 232-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508419883387.1461-73231350-5084https://hdl.handle.net/11441/166691Based on the evidence found in two case studies of intensive agriculture in Southern Spain, this paper analyses the impact of business strategies aimed at devaluing packaging plant work in the competitive integration processes currently taking place in the global agri-food value chain. The paper explores three business strategies: the feminisation, segmentation and de-skilling of labour, along with ethnic substitution and labour recruitment outsourcing mechanisms. Although it acknowledges the importance of the dynamics of global competition, the paper focuses mainly on how firms articulate their strategies in packaging plants within the political, family and sociocultural frameworks of specific local contexts. The analysis uses a qualitative methodology based on in-depth interviews and participant observations.application/pdf21 p.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Packaging plantsglobal agri-food systemfemale workdevaluation of workinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess10.1177/1350508419883387