Digitalization on the farm: Transformations of the production process in the pig sector
Abstract
The objective of this research is to analyze the role of digitalization in the evolution of the production model of the pork sector. Based on their uses, implications and the discourses surrounding the phenomenon, we study how ICTs relate to workers, pigs and other natures, which, from the interpretive framework of Jason Moore's World-Ecology, have been put to work in favor of capital accumulation. To this end, semi-structured interviews have been carried out with workers involved in the different phases of production: livestock farming, meat processing factories and digitalizing companies in the sector.
Among the main results we can consider the use of digitalization and automation as fundamental elements to homogenize, intensify and have greater control over workers and production, linked to global food chains.
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