1. The Devil And Commodity Fetishism In South America
... the market driven economy is poignant. One of the most dramatic examples is that of a cane field worker in Columbia who collapses, seemingly unnoticed, from illness at work and even his pleas for water go unheeded. He is ignored by the boss and his fellow workers, who are focused on achieving their quota of production for the day, and is left, ill, lying in the field over the ... weekend and subsequently he dies. The dead labourer was forced to work in the fields because the capitalist agribusiness had swallowed (as the peasants would come to fetishise, in their description of the cane)...
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