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 Urabį, and the coca/cocaine region of the Caguįn. 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.
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Recasts Colombia's endemic rural violence in a world-historical perspective that connects local labour and development dynamics to the arc of US hegemony.
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 Urabį;
5. Despotism, crisis, and the social contradictions of peripheral
proletarianization in Urabį;
6. From despotism to counter-hegemony in the
Caguįn;
7. An uncertain future in the Caguįn and beyond; Conclusion: Towards
a labor-friendly development in an era of world systemic crisis.
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.
