Author: Winnifred Brown-Glaude
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826501907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Making a living in the Caribbean requires resourcefulness and even a willingness to circumvent the law. Women of color in Jamaica encounter bureaucratic mazes, neighborhood territoriality, and ingrained racial and cultural prejudices. For them, it requires nothing less than a herculean effort to realize their entrepreneurial dreams. In Higglers in Kingston, Winnifred Brown-Glaude puts the reader on the ground in frenetic urban Kingston, the capital and largest city in Jamaica. She explores the lives of informal market laborers, called "higglers," across the city as they navigate a corrupt and inaccessible "official" Jamaican economy. But rather than focus merely on the present-day situation, she contextualizes how Jamaica arrived at this point, delving deep into the island's history as a former colony, a home to slaves and masters alike, and an eventual nation of competing and conflicted racial sectors. Higglers in Kingston weaves together contemporary ethnography, economic history, and sociology of race to address a broad audience of readers on a crucial economic and cultural center.
Higglers in Kingston
Author: Winnifred Brown-Glaude
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826501907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Making a living in the Caribbean requires resourcefulness and even a willingness to circumvent the law. Women of color in Jamaica encounter bureaucratic mazes, neighborhood territoriality, and ingrained racial and cultural prejudices. For them, it requires nothing less than a herculean effort to realize their entrepreneurial dreams. In Higglers in Kingston, Winnifred Brown-Glaude puts the reader on the ground in frenetic urban Kingston, the capital and largest city in Jamaica. She explores the lives of informal market laborers, called "higglers," across the city as they navigate a corrupt and inaccessible "official" Jamaican economy. But rather than focus merely on the present-day situation, she contextualizes how Jamaica arrived at this point, delving deep into the island's history as a former colony, a home to slaves and masters alike, and an eventual nation of competing and conflicted racial sectors. Higglers in Kingston weaves together contemporary ethnography, economic history, and sociology of race to address a broad audience of readers on a crucial economic and cultural center.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826501907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Making a living in the Caribbean requires resourcefulness and even a willingness to circumvent the law. Women of color in Jamaica encounter bureaucratic mazes, neighborhood territoriality, and ingrained racial and cultural prejudices. For them, it requires nothing less than a herculean effort to realize their entrepreneurial dreams. In Higglers in Kingston, Winnifred Brown-Glaude puts the reader on the ground in frenetic urban Kingston, the capital and largest city in Jamaica. She explores the lives of informal market laborers, called "higglers," across the city as they navigate a corrupt and inaccessible "official" Jamaican economy. But rather than focus merely on the present-day situation, she contextualizes how Jamaica arrived at this point, delving deep into the island's history as a former colony, a home to slaves and masters alike, and an eventual nation of competing and conflicted racial sectors. Higglers in Kingston weaves together contemporary ethnography, economic history, and sociology of race to address a broad audience of readers on a crucial economic and cultural center.
Jamaican Higglers
Author: Melvin Romeo Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Higglers in Kingston
Author: Winnifred Brown-Glaude
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826517676
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Navigating a Caribbean economy, hidden in plain sight
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826517676
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Navigating a Caribbean economy, hidden in plain sight
The Jamaican Small-scale Farmer
Author:
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Lived Experiences of Public Consumption
Author: D. Cook
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230591264
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This collection of original ethnographically based research from five continents, provides insights into the dynamics of stability and change in our globalizing world. The chapters comprising Live Experiences of Public Consumption give a vivid account of how cultural and economic value intertwine at face-to-face encounters in marketplaces.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230591264
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This collection of original ethnographically based research from five continents, provides insights into the dynamics of stability and change in our globalizing world. The chapters comprising Live Experiences of Public Consumption give a vivid account of how cultural and economic value intertwine at face-to-face encounters in marketplaces.
Women and the Sexual Division of Labour in the Caribbean
Author: Keith Hart
Publisher: Canoe Press
ISBN: 9789768125187
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Women and the Sexual Division of Labour in the Caribbean is a report of a series of seminars held in 1987. It consists of a broad essay in evolutionary anthropology, a review of labour market theories, an application of general theory to the social history of the sexual division of labour in Trinidad and Tobago, and four case studies of women's work in Jamaica - the country where the original presentations were made.
Publisher: Canoe Press
ISBN: 9789768125187
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Women and the Sexual Division of Labour in the Caribbean is a report of a series of seminars held in 1987. It consists of a broad essay in evolutionary anthropology, a review of labour market theories, an application of general theory to the social history of the sexual division of labour in Trinidad and Tobago, and four case studies of women's work in Jamaica - the country where the original presentations were made.
Politicized Microfinance
Author: Caroline Shenaz Hossein
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442616245
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
In this work, Caroline Shenaz Hossein explores the politics, histories and social prejudices that have shaped the legacy of microbanking in Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442616245
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
In this work, Caroline Shenaz Hossein explores the politics, histories and social prejudices that have shaped the legacy of microbanking in Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad.
Jamaica Diplomatic Handbook - Strategic Information, Developments, Contacts
Author: IBP, Inc.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 143302621X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Jamaica Diplomatic Handbook - Strategic Information and Developments
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 143302621X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Jamaica Diplomatic Handbook - Strategic Information and Developments
Jamaica A "Spy" Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information, Developments, Contacts
Author: IBP, Inc.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1433026147
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Jamaica A "Spy" Guide - Strategic Information and Developments
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1433026147
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Jamaica A "Spy" Guide - Strategic Information and Developments
On the Edges of Development
Author: Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135912890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This volume re-imagines development through a careful and imaginative exploration of some of the many ways that culture – in the broadest sense of lived experience and its representation – can recentre resistance, suggest alternative models, and advance critiques of development as it is currently practised.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135912890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This volume re-imagines development through a careful and imaginative exploration of some of the many ways that culture – in the broadest sense of lived experience and its representation – can recentre resistance, suggest alternative models, and advance critiques of development as it is currently practised.