Slipping away [electronic resource] : banana politics and fair trade in the Eastern Caribbean / Mark Moberg.
By: Moberg, Mark.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Dislocations ; v. 4. Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008Description: xv, 250 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Banana trade -- Saint Lucia | Banana growers -- Saint Lucia | Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Saint Lucia | Competition, UnfairGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 382/.41477209729843 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to viewItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-242) and index.
Map of St. Lucia -- Linking the personal, the local, and the global -- An island in history -- Banananomics : work and identity among island growers -- St. Lucia in the global banana trade -- Banana politics -- Privatization and fragmentation -- Survivors -- Desperate times, desperate measures -- Fair trade in discourse and practice -- Fair trade and conventional farming in the Mabouya valley -- Conclusion : a new world or a new kind of dependence?
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