Appetite for Growth: Challenges to Scale for Food and Beverage Makers in Three U.S. Cities

Schrock, Greg; Doussard, Marc; Wolf-Powers, Laura; Marotta, Stephen; Eisenburger, Max

doi:10.1177/0891242418808377

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“…Rather than joining global supply chains that typically bring products to consumers, AFS firms often must develop new supply chains and infrastructure (Dunning 2016 ). As a result, much of this work is relatively experimental and small in terms of production or distribution abilities 3 (Tewari et al 2018 ; Schrock et al 2019 ). Job openings in AFS reflect the range of ways people build alternatives, raising the first research question this paper addresses: what jobs are in demand to establish and operate AFS?…”

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confidence: 99%

Between the farm and the fork: job quality in sustainable food systems

Kelmenson

2022

Agric Hum Values

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Advocates for structural change in the food system see opportunity in alternative food systems (AFS) to bolster sustainability and equity. Indeed, any alternative to industrial labor practices is assumed to be better. However, little is known about what types of jobs are building AFS or job quality. Failing to understand job quality in AFS risks building a sustainable but exploitative industry. Using a unique and large data set on job openings in AFS, this paper narrows this gap by providing an assessment of labor demand and job quality for AFS in the United States between 2010 and 2019. Job advertisements are matched to 2018 Standard Occupation Codes to characterize work. Wages are compared to living wage standards and median incomes by occupation and local labor market. Considering living wage tests and local labor market competitiveness together, the potential for high job quality in AFS is mixed. Optimistically, higher prices in occupation that are close to consumers and experiencing significant labor demand, like food service and sales, saw more competitive wages. However, these roles frequently failed to offer living wages. Farm work occupations underperformed compared to local labor markets. In addition, uncompetitive senior-level jobs may indicate low-quality career pathways for leadership roles charting paths forward in AFS. These results suggest more institutional action are necessary to enhance labor quality within these spaces and more broadly across the food system. These results also raise questions about who is able to participate in AFS development and whether barriers to participate may replicate equity blind spots.

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Between the farm and the fork: job quality in sustainable food systems

Kelmenson

2022

Agric Hum Values

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“…This attunement to "crisis ordinariness" is critical in shaping how work is imagined, valued, and performed. 'Making' was accelerated by the job losses meted out by the Great Recession in the late 2000s (Heying, 2010;Schrock et al, 2018), and as such, the emergence of the maker movement is entangled in that ongoing moment of collective insecurity. Berlant refers to such an extended moment as an impasse, or "what it feels like to be in the middle of a shift" (2011: 198).…”

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Making sense of ‘maker’: Work, identity, and affect in the maker movement

Marotta

2020

Environ Plan A

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This paper investigates the affective dimensions of entrepreneurial and creative work with the goal of making sense of the emergent collective identity of ‘maker.’ Relying on qualitative research in Detroit, MI, and Portland, OR, with small, entrepreneurial craft producers affiliated with the ‘maker movement,’ I forward two broad suppositions. First, as a work-related identity, ‘maker’ is emergent from a collective frustration with globalization and corporate/professional work. From the perspective of affective labor, the suggestion is that this negative association with globalized forms of work might be productive of a politically oppositional subjectivity. Second, as an identity term ‘maker’ is vague and oftentimes rejected by the people it ostensibly describes, and as such, the politics of ‘maker’ are not oriented toward collective political action. Why does ‘maker’ appear coherent as a response to globalization and corporate culture, but incoherent as a form of solidarity or collective identity? The paper utilizes affect theory to make sense of this contradiction, finding that the ambiguity and negation of ‘maker’ help shape a non-rigid form of belonging that allows makers to express various dissatisfactions (e.g. of globalization) while maintaining feelings of autonomy and avoiding overtly political positions. Lastly, I contend that ‘making’ is an adjustment to the turbulence of capitalism rather than a confrontation against it and is best understood in terms of the sense of mooring and purpose it provides for those within its milieu.

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“…Growth in small business entrepreneurial activity is an important economic development policy goal, though tension exists between efficient entrepreneurial policy and policymaker incentives (Schrock et al, 2019;Qian, 2018). The disconnect between policymaking and optimal policy design is especially important for democratically elected officials who must deliver on campaign promises to voters (Matti, 2019).…”

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Comparing small business owner and voter beliefs regarding constraints on business growth

Malone

Koumpias

2020

JEPP

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PurposeThis research note compares voter opinions regarding small business entrepreneurial activity to opinions of small business owners and links any divergence in perceptions to realized suboptimal entrepreneurial growth policy.Design/methodology/approachPrimary data collection via best–worst scaling and estimation of linear regression models.FindingsResults suggest that small business owners are less concerned about issues such as foreign competition, estate/death taxes, oil prices and labor union demands but are more concerned with domestic competition, income taxes, regulatory burdens and availability of credit from lenders.Social implicationsThe authors find major discrepancies in opinions about trade policy and business financing, which may lead to policy design that hinders entrepreneurship given evidence that politicians do respond to voters' opinions (Autor et al., 2016).Originality/valueIt represents the first empirical assessment of differences between voter and small business owner perspectives on entrepreneurial policy. An immediate policy implication includes the need to provide additional avenues of communication of entrepreneurs' concerns.

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Appetite for Growth: Challenges to Scale for Food and Beverage Makers in Three U.S. Cities

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

Between the farm and the fork: job quality in sustainable food systems

Between the farm and the fork: job quality in sustainable food systems

Making sense of ‘maker’: Work, identity, and affect in the maker movement

Comparing small business owner and voter beliefs regarding constraints on business growth

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