Gangmastering and gang workers agency in Italian Agricultural Commodity Chains

The project sets out to investigate labour agency and resistance among gang migrant workers involved in agricultural production, organized in Global Value Chains (GVCs), in the countryside south of the capital of Rome, Central Italy. The study of gangmastering in contemporary agri-food systems is an ever-expanding field. However, academic research, NGOs and journalistic accounts typically offer a unidimensional representation of gangmastering as a relationship of coercion imposed to vulnerable workers, and gang workers as passive victims to be rescued.