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This paper will focus on the gendered dynamics of control of women’s time and space within a global production enclave of food production. The paper will focus on the rhythms of work and how these are established in response to natural ecological rhythms and those of the market. The paper will consider how these rhythms and their intensification through global food system dynamics come into sharp contrast with the needs of women and their families to maintain a steady livelihood.This paper will be built upon the analysis of interviews and field notes from fieldwork in a small town in Southern Morocco which is a production hub for a burgeoning trade in the export-production of horticultural crops such as tomatoes, cherry tomatoes and green beans. Examining the themes of ‘working hours’ and ‘seasonality’ that emerge strongly from the interviews, I explore how men and women encounter the rhythms of global production differently. In turn, they identify differing ways of challenging such rhythms, or finding space within them for themselves and their families.Broadly, the asymmetric nature of power and control in global food systems is overwhelmingly conditioned by the powerful, even if absentee, actors far from the production enclaves. Yet to what extent is this also present in the way in which they condition the everyday timetables of workers? How do external economic actors, employers and workers try to assert and resist control, around the clock of the lives of workers, and would-be workers? How does this challenge our conceptions of the divisions between work and home lives and the responsibility of families and employers in the local and global context?