SafeHabitus Deliverable 5.3 Understanding the challenges and improving the attractiveness to workers of jobs in agriculture

This report examines the health, safety and wellbeing challenges faced by inter- and intra-EU mobile agricultural workers, adopting a broad occupational safety and health (OSH) perspective that extends beyond accidents and specific illnesses to encompass the social, legal and material conditions of work and everyday life. These include recruitment and mobility regimes, employment relations, labour organisation, housing arrangements, access to healthcare, and exposure to violence, coercion and discrimination. The central analytical concern is how contemporary migrant-dependent agricultural systems produce and distribute risks across differently positioned workers, and how these dynamics shape both vulnerability and the perceived attractiveness of agricultural work.