This thesis explores the subjective meanings inhering in individual purposeful agency among women who are, or have been, farmworkers in South Africa's Western Cape province. Existing research has highlighted gendered dimensions of farm labor on commercial farms in South(ern) Africa (Addison, 2019; Hall, 2013; Lazzarini, 2017; Rutherford, 2001; Rutherford & Addison, 2007) and the Western Cape (Eriksson, 2017; Randle, 2014; Scully, 1997; Visser, 2016; Waldman, 1996). These findings firstly reveal the gendered experiences of farmworkers. Secondly, they underscore the need to understand the processes through which women enact agency to/through work. To gain a deeper understanding of these processes, this study pursues a conceptually- rooted examination of empirical findings from qualitative research conducted in Western Cape. It explores women's agency enactments by analyzing the motivations behind their choices and the meanings they attach to particular behaviors. It frames the research through Amartya Sen's (1999, 2009) capability approach and integrates individual interviews, focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and observations in its analysis of women's individual agency. The thesis presents ground-up conceptualizations of the forms of agency women have, value, and/or pursue. Furthermore, it discusses how individual agency can also, sometimes, be 'other-related' when individuals' choices and actions can be linked to their relational considerations. The thesis investigates the link between agency and the meaningfulness of individual women's choices and actions, grounded in understanding what women value instrumentally (as a means to an end) and/or intrinsically (as an end in itself). The project does so by examining women's control over income (chapter 5), decisions to work (chapter 6), and ideas about the 'self' (chapter 7). Thus, the main empirical contributions of this research are: analytically distinguishing control over income as strategic and/or executive; understanding how women's decisions to work (or not) helps them pursue what they value, and developing a conceptual link between those values and their identities; and examining how the 'good woman', a concept of the self that emerged from the data, is an exemplar that relates to some women's agency. This study contributes to improving our understanding of the subjective dimensions of women's individual agency.