This study of banana contract farming in the Eastern Caribbean explores the forces that shape contract-farming enterprises everywhere--capital, the state, and the environment. Employing the increasingly popular framework of political ecology, which highlights the dynamic linkages between political-economic forces and human-environment relationships, Lawrence Grossman provides a new perspective on the history and contemporary trajectory of the Windward Islands banana industry. He reveals in rich detail the myriad impacts of banana production on the peasant laborers of St. Vincent and the...
This study of banana contract farming in the Eastern Caribbean explores the forces that shape contract-farming enterprises everywhere--capital, the st...
Lawrence S. Grossman explores the far-reaching implications of the conflicts between subsistence and commodity production in developing countries.
Originally published in 1984.
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Lawrence S. Grossman explores the far-reaching implications of the conflicts between subsistence and commodity production in developing countries.<...
