Primarily focusing on the organization of production and labor
use practices in the Caribbean's second largest sugar industry,
this work's historical, macroeconomic, political, and sociocultural
components depict the reality of today's Dominican sugar economy.
The Dominican Republic has been radically altered by its
internationally oriented sugar economy--its society and national
culture transformed and its political, legal, and economic
structures modified. This book describes the progressive
replacement of national labor in the sugar industry by foreign
workers. Comparing the three distinct sugar corporations, it
concludes that all three exploited foreign labor. The study refutes
modern slavery charges through social science theory and extensive
field research. Depicting living and working conditions in the
fields, it concludes that slavery charges are the result of
superficial analyses of symbols. More in-depth analyses display one
of the most extreme forms of superexploitation in the twentieth
century.
Addressing present-day labor utilization strategies in the
Dominican Republic sugar plantation system, Martin Murphy focuses
on three areas: the logic of production, foreign labor integration,
and a comparative analysis of three corporations. His first two
chapters provide an overview of the historic and contemporary
Dominican sugar industry. Historical patterns of labor recruitment
and use are then presented in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 describes the
basic logic of production and use of various types of labor for the
plantations of the 1980s. Murphy's last four chapters address the
question of heavy reliance on Haitian labor: Chapter 5 provides a
history of Haitian migration; Chapter 6 discusses factors of
expulsion and attraction which condition present-day Haitian
migration to Dominican fields; Chapters 7 and 8 conclude with
questions of Haitian ethnicity and its relationship to production
organization.
General
Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 1991 |
First published: |
August 1991 |
Authors: |
Martin Murphy
|
Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
200 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-275-93113-1 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-275-93113-7 |
Barcode: |
9780275931131 |
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