At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia

ISBN-13: 9781316517109 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 280 str.

Phillip A. (Florida Atlantic University) Hough

Opis

Recasts Colombia's endemic rural violence in a world-historical perspective that connects local labour and development dynamics to the arc of US hegemony.

Spis treści

Introduction: The contradictions of Colombian development; 1. Towards a sociology of labor and development at the margins of the market; 2. The rise of Fedecafé hegemony in Viejo Caldas; 3: Fedecafé's labor regime in the arc of US world hegemony; 4. The world historical origins of despotism in Urabá; 5. Despotism, crisis, and the social contradictions of peripheral proletarianization in Urabá; 6. From despotism to counter-hegemony in the Caguán; 7. An uncertain future in the Caguán and beyond; Conclusion: Towards a labor-friendly development in an era of world systemic crisis.