John M Talbot
Biographic Data
| ID | 133064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M Talbot |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M |
| FAMILY NAME | Talbot |
| SIGNATURE | TALBOT J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7021-1995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
On the Abandonment of Coffee Plantations in Jamaica after Emancipation
Historians who have studied Jamaican coffee plantations have concluded that plantation production was insignificant after about 1850. I argue that this conclusion is based on an uncritical acceptance of the information contained in one source, a report of the House of Assembly. A critical reading of this document, in its historical context, casts doubt on the conclusion. I further show that many more plantations survived into the 1880s than has b…
Chicken and Shrimp: Two Perspectives on Globalization: The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas and Buoyancy on the Bayou: Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of…
The Coffee Commodity Chain in the World-Economy: Arrighi's Systemic Cycles and Braudel's Layers of Analysis
This article presents a history of coffee in the modern world-economy, w;ing an analyticalframework synthesized from Arrighi's concept of systemic cycles of accumulation and Braudel'snotion of three levels of economic analysis: material life, the market economy, and capitalism. Ittakes the commodity chain as the unit of analysis, and argues that this choice helps to illuminatethe caw;al connections between Braudel 's three layers. The method of i…
A Bumper Crop of Fair Trade Coffee Books
The history of the world coffee market is a story of cycles of boom and bust. The most recent bust, one of the most severe in history, began in 1998 and started to ease in 2005. This period of severe crisis across the coffee producing countries in the developing world stimulated a growing interest in fair trade coffee as a means of helping the small farmers who were being devastated by historically low prices. As public interest and consumption g…
Introduction Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Latin American Coffee Societies
Since 1989 world coffee economies have been seriously affected by the spread of free-market ideologies, the growth of enormous multinational pro cessing and trading corporations, and U.S. anti-state pressures in the wake of the end of the cold war. Latin America has been hard-hit by changes in the global coffee economy because it still produces 61 percent of the world's coffee (ICO, 2009) but there has been a compensating double movement in respo…
Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice - by Gavin Fridell
Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming Globalization
Information, Finance, and the New International Inequality: The Case of Coffee
This paper argues that a new international inequality has been superimposed over the old international inequality, and that this superimposition can help to explain the increasing degree of inequality in the world economy today. The old international inequality was based on the colonial division of labor, in which the periphery provided raw materials to core-based industries. The new inequality is based on control over ?ows of information and ?na…
Tropical commodity chains, forward integration strategies and international inequality: Coffee, cocoa and tea
This paper presents a comparative analysis of three tropical commodity chains, for a set of commodities often grouped together as the tropical beverages: coffee, cocoa and tea. The analysis demonstrates the ways in which the structures of these chains reinforce the north-south dimension of international inequality and help to explain its persistence over time. It focuses on attempts by actors in the producing regions to move forward into the more…
Where does your coffee dollar go: The division of income and surplus along the coffee commodity chain
The Struggle for Control of a Commodity Chain: Instant Coffee from Latin America
Latin America has long provided most of the world's coffee. At the same time, dependence on coffee exports has profoundly affected many Latin American countries. This research note will analyze the relationship between primary-commodity exporting and development by means of a case study of attempts by Latin American countries to industrialize their exports by exporting instant coffee rather than green coffee beans. A commodity-chain approach will…
Attitudinal and Nonattitudinal Determinants of Contraception: A Cross-Cultural Study
Survey data from women in pregnancy risk in Venezuela and Kenya are used to examine the determinants of contraceptive intention, use, and the intention/use consistency. The five ranking determinants of contraceptive use are: intention to contracept, social support, accessibility, conjugal communication, and desire for additional children. All five determinants have direct and additive effects on contraception, but their relative impacts vary sign…
Tropical commodity chains, forward integration strategies and international inequality: Coffee, cocoa and tea
This paper presents a comparative analysis of three tropical commodity chains, for a set of commodities often grouped together as the tropical beverages: coffee, cocoa and tea. The analysis demonstrates the ways in which the structures of these chains reinforce the north-south dimension of international inequality and help to explain its persistence over time. It focuses on attempts by actors in the producing regions to move forward into the more…
Where does your coffee dollar go: The division of income and surplus along the coffee commodity chain
The Struggle for Control of a Commodity Chain: Instant Coffee from Latin America
Latin America has long provided most of the world's coffee. At the same time, dependence on coffee exports has profoundly affected many Latin American countries. This research note will analyze the relationship between primary-commodity exporting and development by means of a case study of attempts by Latin American countries to industrialize their exports by exporting instant coffee rather than green coffee beans. A commodity-chain approach will…
The Coffee Commodity Chain in the World-Economy: Arrighi's Systemic Cycles and Braudel's Layers of Analysis
This article presents a history of coffee in the modern world-economy, w;ing an analyticalframework synthesized from Arrighi's concept of systemic cycles of accumulation and Braudel'snotion of three levels of economic analysis: material life, the market economy, and capitalism. Ittakes the commodity chain as the unit of analysis, and argues that this choice helps to illuminatethe caw;al connections between Braudel 's three layers. The method of i…
Attitudinal and Nonattitudinal Determinants of Contraception: A Cross-Cultural Study
Survey data from women in pregnancy risk in Venezuela and Kenya are used to examine the determinants of contraceptive intention, use, and the intention/use consistency. The five ranking determinants of contraceptive use are: intention to contracept, social support, accessibility, conjugal communication, and desire for additional children. All five determinants have direct and additive effects on contraception, but their relative impacts vary sign…
Information, Finance, and the New International Inequality: The Case of Coffee
This paper argues that a new international inequality has been superimposed over the old international inequality, and that this superimposition can help to explain the increasing degree of inequality in the world economy today. The old international inequality was based on the colonial division of labor, in which the periphery provided raw materials to core-based industries. The new inequality is based on control over ?ows of information and ?na…
On the Abandonment of Coffee Plantations in Jamaica after Emancipation
Historians who have studied Jamaican coffee plantations have concluded that plantation production was insignificant after about 1850. I argue that this conclusion is based on an uncritical acceptance of the information contained in one source, a report of the House of Assembly. A critical reading of this document, in its historical context, casts doubt on the conclusion. I further show that many more plantations survived into the 1880s than has b…
Introduction Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Latin American Coffee Societies
Since 1989 world coffee economies have been seriously affected by the spread of free-market ideologies, the growth of enormous multinational pro cessing and trading corporations, and U.S. anti-state pressures in the wake of the end of the cold war. Latin America has been hard-hit by changes in the global coffee economy because it still produces 61 percent of the world's coffee (ICO, 2009) but there has been a compensating double movement in respo…
Attitudinal and Nonattitudinal Determinants of Contraception: A Cross-Cultural Study
Survey data from women in pregnancy risk in Venezuela and Kenya are used to examine the determinants of contraceptive intention, use, and the intention/use consistency. The five ranking determinants of contraceptive use are: intention to contracept, social support, accessibility, conjugal communication, and desire for additional children. All five determinants have direct and additive effects on contraception, but their relative impacts vary sign…
Where does your coffee dollar go: The division of income and surplus along the coffee commodity chain
The Struggle for Control of a Commodity Chain: Instant Coffee from Latin America
Latin America has long provided most of the world's coffee. At the same time, dependence on coffee exports has profoundly affected many Latin American countries. This research note will analyze the relationship between primary-commodity exporting and development by means of a case study of attempts by Latin American countries to industrialize their exports by exporting instant coffee rather than green coffee beans. A commodity-chain approach will…
Information, Finance, and the New International Inequality: The Case of Coffee
This paper argues that a new international inequality has been superimposed over the old international inequality, and that this superimposition can help to explain the increasing degree of inequality in the world economy today. The old international inequality was based on the colonial division of labor, in which the periphery provided raw materials to core-based industries. The new inequality is based on control over ?ows of information and ?na…
Tropical commodity chains, forward integration strategies and international inequality: Coffee, cocoa and tea
This paper presents a comparative analysis of three tropical commodity chains, for a set of commodities often grouped together as the tropical beverages: coffee, cocoa and tea. The analysis demonstrates the ways in which the structures of these chains reinforce the north-south dimension of international inequality and help to explain its persistence over time. It focuses on attempts by actors in the producing regions to move forward into the more…
Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming Globalization
Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice - by Gavin Fridell
A Bumper Crop of Fair Trade Coffee Books
The history of the world coffee market is a story of cycles of boom and bust. The most recent bust, one of the most severe in history, began in 1998 and started to ease in 2005. This period of severe crisis across the coffee producing countries in the developing world stimulated a growing interest in fair trade coffee as a means of helping the small farmers who were being devastated by historically low prices. As public interest and consumption g…
Introduction Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Latin American Coffee Societies
Since 1989 world coffee economies have been seriously affected by the spread of free-market ideologies, the growth of enormous multinational pro cessing and trading corporations, and U.S. anti-state pressures in the wake of the end of the cold war. Latin America has been hard-hit by changes in the global coffee economy because it still produces 61 percent of the world's coffee (ICO, 2009) but there has been a compensating double movement in respo…
The Coffee Commodity Chain in the World-Economy: Arrighi's Systemic Cycles and Braudel's Layers of Analysis
This article presents a history of coffee in the modern world-economy, w;ing an analyticalframework synthesized from Arrighi's concept of systemic cycles of accumulation and Braudel'snotion of three levels of economic analysis: material life, the market economy, and capitalism. Ittakes the commodity chain as the unit of analysis, and argues that this choice helps to illuminatethe caw;al connections between Braudel 's three layers. The method of i…
On the Abandonment of Coffee Plantations in Jamaica after Emancipation
Historians who have studied Jamaican coffee plantations have concluded that plantation production was insignificant after about 1850. I argue that this conclusion is based on an uncritical acceptance of the information contained in one source, a report of the House of Assembly. A critical reading of this document, in its historical context, casts doubt on the conclusion. I further show that many more plantations survived into the 1880s than has b…
Chicken and Shrimp: Two Perspectives on Globalization: The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas and Buoyancy on the Bayou: Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of…
Economics (10 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (8 works) · Market economy (7 works) · Economy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · International trade (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Commodity (4 works) · Globalization (4 works)