Slipping away
Subtitle: banana politics and fair trade in the Eastern Caribbean
By: Mark Moberg.
Series: Dislocations -- 4
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781845451455
Subjects: Banana trade -- Saint Lucia; Banana growers -- Saint Lucia; Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Saint Lucia; Competition, Unfair
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Map of St. Lucia; title: Linking the personal, the local, and the global; title: An island in history; title: Banananomics: work and identity among island growers; title: St. Lucia in the global banana trade; title: Banana politics; title: Privatization and fragmentation; title: Survivors; title: Desperate times, desperate measures; title: Fair trade in discourse and practice; title: Fair trade and conventional farming in the Mabouya valley; title: Conclusion: a new world or a new kind of dependence?