At the Margins of the Global Market(English, Hardcover, Hough Phillip A.)

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At the Margins of the Global Market(English, Hardcover, Hough Phillip A.) is written by Hough Phillip A. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1316517101 (ISBN 10) and 9781316517109 (ISBN 13).

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 Market engages 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 Uraba, and the coca/cocaine region of the Caguan. 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.