A Caribbean plantation system -- The horizontal consolidation of the U.S. sugar refining industry -- The sugar tariff and vertical integration -- Vertical integration in the colonies -- The colonos -- Labor and migration -- The twentieth-century plantation -- Economic collapse and revolution
Summary
"Examines patterns of investment and principal groups of investors, interactions between U.S. capitalists and native planters, contrasts between new and old regions of sugar monoculture, the historical formation of the working class on sugar plantations, and patterns of labor migration."--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-308) and index
