At the margins of the global market : making commodities, workers, and crisis in rural Colombia / Phillip A. Hough, Florida Atlantic University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hough, Phillip A., author.

Series:

Development trajectories in global value chains

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coffee industry--Colombia.

Coffee industry.

Economic development--Colombia.

Economic development.

Agricultural industries--Colombia.

Agricultural industries.

Labor--Colombia.

Labor.

Coca industry--Colombia.

Coca industry.

Banana trade--Colombia.

Banana trade.

Colombia--Economic conditions.

Colombia.

Colombia--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 359 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Contemporary scholars debate the factors driving despotic labour conditions across the world economy. Some emphasize the dominance of global market imperatives and others highlight the market's reliance upon extra-economic coercion and state violence. At the Margins of the Global Market engages in this debate through a comparative and world-historical analysis of the labour regimes of three global commodity-producing subregions of rural Colombia: the coffee region of Viejo Caldas, the banana region of Urabá, and the coca/cocaine region of the Caguán. By drawing upon insights from labour regimes, global commodity chains, and world historical sociology, this book offers a novel understanding of the broad range of factors - local, national, global, and interregional - that shape labour conditions on the ground in Colombia. In doing so, it offers a critical new framework for analysing labour and development dynamics that exist at the margins of the global market.

Notes:

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781009036757 (ebook)

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