George L. Beckford
Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Economies of the Third World
1999 (1972)
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Economics
| Contents | 6 |
| Tables | 9 |
| Illustrations | 10 |
| Foreword | 11 |
| Preface | 17 |
| Introduction | 22 |
| 1. Plantations in third world economy | 36 |
| 2. The political economy of change in plantation economy and society | 63 |
| 3. Social and political dimensions of plantation society | 86 |
| 4. Changing scenes in plantation development | 117 |
| 5. The dynamics of growth and the nature of metropolitan plantation enterprise | 147 |
| 6. Social costs of plantations | 187 |
| 7. The dynamics of underdevelopment with plantation agriculture | 216 |
| 8. Possibilities for change and transformation | 248 |
| 9. A concluding note on the strategy of transformation and the general third world scene | 266 |
| APPENDIX 1. Plantations in underdeveloped countries and regions | 271 |
| APPENDIX 2. Economic organization of plantations | 285 |
| APPENDIX 3. George Beckford and Caribbean Economic Thought | 320 |
| Bibliography | 324 |
| Index | 334 |