At the Margins of the Global Market - 9781316517109

At the Margins of the Global MarketMaking Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia\nAuthor(s): Phillip A. Hough\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781316517109, 978-1316517109\nSynopsis\nContemporary 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 [url] 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 Urab, and the coca/cocaine region of the Cagun. 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 fact.