Review: The political ecology of bananas: contract farming, peasants, and agrarian change in the Eastern Caribbean

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Chomsky, Aviva (author / Salem State College)
    Format:
    Book review
    Publication Date:
    1999
    URL:
    http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_interdisciplinary_history/v030/30.3chomsky.html
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23368
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Interdisciplinary History
    Journal Title Details:
    30(3) : 561-562
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean, chemicals, decision making, farmers, farming methods, fruit, indigenous knowledge, international trade, pest management, pesticides, rural change, traditional knowledge, and deskilling
    Notes:
    Reports on author's findings that "contract farming does not have the effect of deskilling predicted based on the factory assembly line, because the environmental specificity of agriculture requires more independent decision making than does factory work."

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