Phillip A. Hough (Florida Atlantic University)

At the Margins of the Global Market

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Produktbeschreibung

Hough recasts Colombia's endemic rural violence in a world-historical perspective that connects local labour and development dynamics to the arc of US global hegemony. This book will appeal to scholars of labour studies, agrarian studies, development, globalisation, Latin America, political science, political economy and economic sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781009005760
• ISBN-10: 1009005766
• Artikelnr.: 69826139

Autorenporträt

Phillip A. Hough is a Colombian-American sociologist who specializes in political economy, labour and agrarian movements, global commodity studies, comparative and world historical sociology, and Latin American development. His current research focuses on labour/agrarian struggles, state and paramilitary violence, class and state formations, and forced displacement and surplus populations.  

Inhaltsangabe

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.