Jamaica And The Sugar Worker Cooperatives
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agrarian reform
Author_Carl Henry Feuer
Average Income
Cane Belt
Cane Cutters
Cane Farming
Cane Lands
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cooperative economics
democratic reform
Direct Democracy
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Estate Cooperative
General Membership Meetings
grassroots mobilization
IMF Austerity
Jamaica Labour Party
Jamaican Case
Jamaican economy
JLP
JLP Regime
Kingston Metropolitan Area
labor relations Jamaica
Large Sugar Estates
National Housing Trust
People's National Party
Pilot Cooperatives
PNP
PNP Government
political coalition
political conflicts
political economy Caribbean
postcolonial development studies
Reformist Program
Sixth Crop
Sugar Elite
Sugar Estates
sugar worker cooperatives
Sugar Workers
worker-managed agriculture case study
Product details
- ISBN 9780367017316
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 146 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Between 1974 and 1977, as part of a wider attempt by Prime Minister Michael Manley's regime to carry out a democratic reformist strategy of development, the three largest sugar estates in Jamaica were converted into worker-managed farms. Within a few years, however, the cooperative program was in disarray as the farms faced economic setbacks and as political conflicts developed among the sugar workers, local authorities, and the government. Drawing on his extensive field research in Jamaica, Dr. Feuer traces the development and decline of the cooperative system and discusses the implications for the possibility of democratic reform. In his view, the logic of the cooperativization process conflicted with the priorities of the middle class, which continued to dominate the Jamaican economy. As a result, the reforms were never firmly rooted in a political coalition with the resources to carry them out. In light of the Jamaican experience, Dr. Feuer considers such questions as: What are the obstacles a nonrevolutionary regime is likely to face in an effort to help the poor? How feasible is it to mobilize the requisite political and administrative resources and neutralize the inherent constraints to reform?
