Agribusinesses have their roots in the plantation system.
For example, although a woman might work outside home or engage in subcontracted homework , she still faces many daily chores and responsibilities within her household. Homework is popular with employers in some industries because workers have little contact with one another thereby preventing workers from organizing to protest working conditions or to demand higher wages. This pattern of production oriented countries toward agricultural production for export and facilitated the growth of agribusiness during the twentieth century. Subcontracting offers corporations wage savings and flexibility in an increasingly competitive world trade market, but it also places workers outside of state protection and state regulation without guaranteed working condition or guaranteed wages.