Decency and excess
Subtitle: global aspirations and material deprivation on a Caribbean sugar plantation
By: Samuel Martínez.
Publisher: Paradigm
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781594511875
Subjects: Sugar workers -- Dominican Republic -- Batey Monte Coca -- Social conditions; Sugar workers -- Dominican Republic -- Batey Monte Coca -- Economic conditions; Commercial products -- Social aspects -- Dominican Republic -- Batey Monte Coca; Alien labor, Haitian -- Dominican Republic -- Batey Monte Coca; Batey Monte Coca (Dominican Republic) -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A place no one calls "home" : the plantation and modernity; title: Living in nowhere; title: Commodity consumption in a globalizing age; title: An indecent life; title: Places and flows; title: High times in hard times; title: Material passions; title: The hot and the cold; title: Conclusions.