From Slave Labor to Your Dinner Table 

Migrant Workers on Italy’s Farms

This article turns to Italy, to discuss the burning issue of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants and its relation to contemporary forms of slavery and exploitation in agriculture. A complementary insight box highlights pockets of resistance and solidarity, where civil society is joining forces to combat the slave-like working conditions of agricultural workers to change a broken food system at its roots, demonstrating that there can be a direct relationship between producers and consumers.