Green Gold by Robert Thomson

Green Gold by Robert Thomson

Green Gold looks at the history and future prospects for the banana industry in four Caribbean islands: Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent. It focuses on conditions for the small farmers and includes a study of Geest PLC, the company solely responsible for distributing Windward bananas in Britain.

Statistical profile of the Eastern Caribbean, Introduction, Enslavement, From sugar to bananas, Bananas and communism, Towards independence, Winds of change, 'Persistent poverty', 1 The international banana market, The producers, The markets, The multinationals, The international banana, industry: future prospects, 2 Geest: Paternalism and profits, The early years: from bulbs to bananas, We have no bananas, Quotas, tariffs and a guaranteed market, Thirty years of expansion: minimising risks, maximising profits, The Growers' Associations, Land, Bad publicity, The final sell-off

A safe harbour, The Economic League, GeestPLC, Mutual dependency?, 3 Banana work: How the Caribbean farmer earns his 'ten per cent', A risky business, Fieldpacking, From port to shop, Who takes the risks?, 4 Case studies, St Lucia, Dominica, Grenada, Conclusion, Alternatives, Bibliography

Thomson, Robert: - Robert Thomson is a writer and editor from Toronto, Canada. His first book Secret Things was released in 1993. A second, revised edition came out the following year. It was at this time that he began working as a journalist, editor and managing editor at a number of local magazines. Through the mid-to-late 1990s, Robert's short fiction was published in various anthologies: Queer View Mirror, Brothers Of The Night: Gay Vampire Stories, Quickies 2, Best Gay Erotica 1998, Queer View Mirror 2, Happily Ever After: Erotic Fairy Tales for Men and Quickies 3. Need, his second book of short fiction was scheduled for release at the beginning of 2000, but the publisher's US distributor closed its doors due to bankruptcy the same week that the entire print run arrived at their warehouse. A number of other personal and professional setbacks prompted him to leave the publishing industry shortly thereafter. Robert worked as a DJ and VJ and lyricist, and began experimenting with video editing software. This lead him to plan, write, film, direct and edit several short films over the next few years, including Text and Last Visit (Ultima visita), which was nominated as Best Short at the 2011 Barcelona GLBT Film Festival. In 2014, both of Robert's titles were re-issued in expanded e-book editions. In June, Secret Things was released, marking its twentieth anniversary. Need was released in December, marking (what would have been) its fifteenth anniversary. HowNow Media published a free-for-a-limited-time sampler of his work called Now... Where Was I? This compilation features stories and excerpts from all of Robert's past and soon-to-be-published titles (Secret Things, Need, Tiny Grievances, Broken, Down, The Co-dependent Cabaret and Rehab). Tiny Grievances, Robert's first book of all-new short stories since 1999, will be published in June of 2016. Robert lives in Toronto, Canada.

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ISBN 13	9780906156261
ISBN 10	0906156262
Titel	Green Gold
Autor	Robert Thomson
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Latin America Bureau
Erscheinungsjahr	1987-10-01
Seitenanzahl	96
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