Harvesting coffee, bargaining wages: rural labor markets in Colombia, 1975 - 1990

This book offers an insightful scrutiny of rural market behavior and a convincing explanation of why farmers fail sometimes to manage their laborers in ways predicted by market models, and how power imbalances and social conditions can impair the ability of laborers to attain a fair market contract...

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Main Author: Ortiz, Sutti (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor Univ. of Michigan Press 1999
Series:Linking levels of analysis
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:This book offers an insightful scrutiny of rural market behavior and a convincing explanation of why farmers fail sometimes to manage their laborers in ways predicted by market models, and how power imbalances and social conditions can impair the ability of laborers to attain a fair market contract during lax labor market periods. Ortiz compares three localized coffee labor markets, expanding the analysis by contrasting the strategies used by the coffee farmers in her study areas with those that farmers in other parts of the world adopt in order to cope with similar problems.
Physical Description:XIX, 265 S. graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:0472110187

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