At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia

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Phillip A. Hough (Florida Atlantic University)

At the Margins of the Global Market

Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia

Phillip A. Hough (Florida Atlantic University)

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English

Cambridge University Press
27 January 2022

International business

Series: Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains

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 Urabá, and the coca/cocaine region of the Caguán. 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.

By: Phillip A. Hough (Florida Atlantic University)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 690g
ISBN: 9781316517109
ISBN 10: 1316517101
Series: Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 27 January 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.