Jamaica And The Sugar Worker Cooperatives
The Politics Of Reform
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Jamaica And The Sugar Worker Cooperatives: The Politics Of Reform
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Drawing on his extensive field research in Jamaica, the author traces the development and decline of the sugar worker cooperatives and discusses the implications for the possibility of democratic reform.
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1. Underdevelopment and Reform: The Case of Jamaica 2. The Sweet and the Sour: Sugar and Jamaica in the Twentieth Century 3. Policy and Procrastination, 1972–1973 4. Conflict and Cooperatives, 1974–1975 5. Structure and Organization of the Cooperatives 6. Counter-Reform: Demobilizing the Sugar Worker Movement 7. Social Relations at the Grass Roots Among Workers, Managers and Staff 8. Economic Outcomes at the Grass Roots: The Workers 9. Economic Outcomes at the Grass Roots: The Farms 10. The Political Economy of Grass-Roots Reform: Summary and Conclusion