The critical tradition of caribbean political economy / Editors; Kari Levitt, Michael Witter

The contribution of George Beckford, 2. -- Independence and responsibility : Self - knowledge as an imperative, 3. -- Beckford and predicaments of caribbean culture, 19. -- George Beckford and plantation economy, 29. -- Peasants, plantations and people : Continuities in the work of George Beckford and W. Arthur Lewis, 39. -- Conference overview, 57. -- Language and empowerment in the Caribbean : Historical basic and contemporary dynamics, 71. -- Politics and labour conflicts in Jamaica : 1838-1865, 101. -- Nineteen thirty-eight, 119. -- Scholarship and activism : Some lessons from 1978-80 concernig the peasantry in Dominica, 129. -- Why does poverty persist?, 157. -- Tributaries and their legacies : The politics of poverty, 173. -- Caribbean development and the caribbean people : The present as history, 189. -- From decolonization to neo -liberalism : What have we learned about development?, 201. -- The crisis of development theory and practice : A Caribbean perspective, 223. -- Three decades of agriculture in the commonwealht Caribbean, 243