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| Material Type: | Conference publication |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip McMichael |
| ISBN: | 0313293996 9780313293993 |
| OCLC Number: | 30399467 |
| Notes: | Papers presented at the Seventeenth Annual Political Economy of the World-System Conference, held at Cornell University, Ithaca, Arpil, 1993. |
| Description: | xvi, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : agrarian and food relations in the world-economy / Philip McMichael -- Food and its relationship to concepts of power / Sidney Mintz -- Food politics : new dangers, new possibilities / Harriet Friedmann -- Durable-food production and consumption in the world-economy / Susan J. Thompson and J. Tadlock Cowan -- Historical transformations in agrarian systems based on wet-rice cultivation : toward an alternative model of social change / Ravi Arvind Palat -- Fatal conjuncture : the decline and fall of the modern agrarian order during the Bretton Woods era / Resat Kasaba and Faruk Tabak -- Canadian misfortunes and Filipino fortunes : the invention of seaweed mariculture and the geographical reorganization of seaweed production / Lanfranco Blanchetti-Revelli -- Vines and wines in the world-economy / Roberto P. Korzeniewicz, Walter Goldfrank, and Miguel E. Korzeniewicz -- The regulation of the world coffee market : tropical commodities and the limits of globalization / John M. Talbot -- On global pond : international development and commodity chains in the shrimp industry / Mike Skladany and Craig K. Harris -- Industrial restructuring and agrarian change : the greening of Singapore / Frances M. Ufkes -- Gender and cheap labor in agriculture / Jane L. Collins -- Depeasantization and agrarian decline in the Caribbean / Ramon Grosfoguel -- Free trade agreements : their impact on agriculture and the environment / Robert Schaeffer. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in economics and economic history, no. 160; Studies in the political economy of the world-system |
| Responsibility: | edited by Philip McMichael. |
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