Slipping Away : Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean /

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During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region's rural communities was devastating. This vol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moberg, Mark (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2008]
Colección:Dislocations ; 4
Temas:
Banana growers > Saint Lucia.
Banana trade > Saint Lucia.
Competition, Unfair.
Globalization > Economic aspects > Saint Lucia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • Map of St. Lucia
  • Chapter One - LINKING THE PERSONAL, THE LOCAL, AND THE GLOBAL
  • Chapter Two - AN ISLAND IN HISTORY
  • Chapter Three - BANANANOMICS Work and Identity among Island Growers
  • Chapter Four - ST. LUCIA IN THE GLOBAL BANANA TRADE
  • Chapter Five - BANANA POLITICS
  • Chapter Six - PRIVATIZATION AND FRAGMENTATION
  • Chapter Seven - SURVIVORS
  • Chapter Eight - DESPERATE TIMES, DESPERATE MEASURES
  • Chapter Nine - FAIR TRADE IN DISCOURSE AND PRACTICE
  • Chapter Ten - FAIR TRADE AND CONVENTIONAL FARMING IN THE MABOUYA VALLEY
  • Chapter Eleven - CONCLUSION A New World or a New Kind of Dependence?
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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