Some do well or better in certain environments than others

"Essential agriculture, sacrificial labor, and the COVID‐19 pandemic in the US South" - Keegan - Journal of Agrarian Change - Wiley Online Library https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joac.12522

"Agricultural exceptionalism naturalizes the racial capitalist system and informs state responses that privilege agricultural production through the exploitation of farmworkers, remaking 'essential' farmworkers as sacrificial labor."

~ Caroline Keegan

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