At the Margins of the Global Market
Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia
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Part of Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains
- Author: Phillip A. Hough, Florida Atlantic University
- Date Published: January 2024
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009005760
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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.
Read more- · Offers an innovative perspective on the causes of rural Colombia's endemic violence and social crises · Develops a world-historical perspective that connects labour and development dynamics to the arc of US world hegemony · Adopts a nuanced comparative approach to the study of three of the most important global commodities produced in the Global South - coffee, bananas, and cocaine
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- Date Published: January 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009005760
- length: 373 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 151 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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