At the Margins of the Global Market
Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia
Phillip A. Hough
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At the Margins of the Global Market
Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia
Phillip A. Hough
About This Book
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 Marketengages 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 UrabĂĄ, and the coca/cocaine region of the CaguĂĄn. 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.