Cities in Scientific and Globalized Agriculture: Transformations in the Dynamics of Population and in the Structure of Employment

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the processes of redistribution of the population and the changes in the employment structure associated with the agribusiness globalization in the State of São Paulo. As privileged areas of social transformation, spaces of globalization whose strongest transnational links go through the production of commodities, regional urban-rural arrangements are presented. In this study, the focus is on the arrangements constructed from the productive space circuits of the sugarcane, citrus and beef slaughtering sectors. In the condition of hybrid spatiality, where historical trends coexist with new processes, regional urban-rural arrangements encompass multiple migration spaces that express all the inequality and segmentation that marks scientific and globalized agriculture and its dynamics of corporate urbanization.