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Setting the price of labour: social determinants of agricultural labour wages in post-socialist areas

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The purpose of this paper is to analyse different social determinants of the price of agricultural wage labour in a context of transformation of production system in post-socialist areas. In this way, it explores a dimension of social inequalities never specifically analysed in the literature about rural areas of the former USSR. Nevertheless, several hypotheses arise from the literature review: Despite the privatisation of land to former workers of the socialist farms, the price of labour in agriculture contributes to social differentiation in post socialist countryside; Administrative and legal regulation of labour relations have lost their strength to guarantee wage levels because of the dependence of the local government and the new owners of the land on LFEs and local employers after agrarian reforms; A worker's ability to bargain over the price of labour varies according to other transfers and relationships he or she has with the employer and the economic situation of his or her household. To overcome the traditional opposition between structural determinants and individual agency that shape the scientific discussion about price formation, this research is based on an economic ethnography. The different dimensions that frame economics (cultural institutions, state regulations, situation of transactions…) are not separated theoretically, but they are rather analysed as intertwined in social spheres of workers' existences. Here, wage labour and work relations are analysed together with other social scenes, as household production, local power relations and local markets. To do so, the paper rest on interviews and observations led in a village and in an administrative centre in Ukraine. The local data are compared with the situation at the national level through the data base of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey.
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Pierre Deffontaines. Setting the price of labour: social determinants of agricultural labour wages in post-socialist areas. 2nd International Symposium on Work in Agriculture Thinking the future of work in agriculture, Mar 2021, Clermont-Ferrand, France. ⟨hal-03338998⟩

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