The winding paths of peripheral proletarianization

Local labour, world hegemonies, and crisis in rural Colombia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2285702
AutoresPhillip A Hough (0000-0002-9457-1167, Department of Sociology Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton Florida USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume19
Fascículo3
Páginas506-527
Data de publicação2019-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Agrarian Change (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1471-0358 • E-ISSN: 1471-0366
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/joac.12303
OpenAlexW2954387235
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas55

This paper analyses the spatial and temporal patterning of Colombia's rural coffee, banana, and coca-producing labour regimes. The violent labour repression and endemic crises of labour control characterizing these regimes challenge the market despotism paradigm that predominates in scholarly analysis of 21st century labour and agrarian struggles. Instead, I draw from early and later writings of Giovanni Arrighi and his collaborators to develop a new labour regime framework that is sensitive to the experiences of capitalist development in "hostile environments" (i.e., peripheral market conditions) and "hostile times" (periods of world hegemonic decline). In doing so, I highlight the deep social contradictions-crises, violence, and labour militancy-that result from processes of peripheral proletarianization and the ways that these contradictions were mitigated and/or exacerbated by the rise of U.S. global hegemony, Colombian developmental policy, and local agrarian struggle

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Hegemony · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Proletarianization · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Law