Slipping away
Subtitle: banana politics and fair trade in the Eastern Caribbean
By: Mark Moberg
Series: Dislocations -- v. 4; Dislocations -- v. 4.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781845451455; 9781845451974
Subjects: Banana trade; Banana growers; Unfair Competition; Globalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-242) 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?