Dates: 8–9 December 2025
Organized by: Critical Agrarian Studies Cluster
About the Workshop
Do you work at WUR and are you researching or involved in labour in agriculture? Labour both as a category and an embodied experience, animates debates about agricultural presents and futures both here in Europe and globally.
The Critical Agrarian Studies cluster of the Centre for Space, Place and Society is organizing a two-day workshop, 8-9th December 2025 to bring together researchers working on this topic. The aim of the workshop is to inspire a collective research program around labour in agriculture at WUR and beyond.
Key Themes
The workshop will focus on three central themes:
- Migrant labour in agriculture
- Labour in alternative agriculture systems
- Technologies and/of labour
Within these topics we anticipate addressing a diversity of themes including quality of work, labour conditions, labour regimes, labour processes, classes of labour, precarity and exploitation, everyday negotiations, social reproduction, resistance, politics, policies, ideologies and ecologies
Call for Abstracts
We are interested in bringing together a diverse range of perspectives and approaches on these topics and themes. If you are interested in participating in the workshop and sharing your perspective or research on labour in agriculture, we invite you to submit a brief (200 word max) abstract to:
📧 Mark Vicol – mark.vicol@wur.nl
📅 Deadline for submission: 31 August 2025
Workshop participants will be asked to share an extended abstract or full paper before the workshop to circulate to other participants
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