Urban Poverty in the Caribbean French Martinique as a Social Laboratory [Hardcover]

In this book on urban poverty in the Caribbean, Michel S. Laguerre presents a detailed analysis of the phenomenon in urban Martinique. He argues that the national structure of inequality finds its myriad expressions in the urban environment. Not only does the city provide the ideological back-up - and the locus where elite ideologies are produced and reproduced - but also the men and women who occupy the positions that sustain the inequality structure. The city serves then as an arena where inequality and poverty are daily manufactured.List of Figures and Maps - List of Tables - Introduction - Urban Poverty and Social Reproduction - The Ecology of Urban Poverty - The Urban Household as a Multi-Product Firm - Domestic Workers - The Grocery Store as an Exploitative Niche - Savings Associations - Immigrant Households as Overseas Subsidiaries - Concluding Remarks - Bibliography - IndexMICHEL S. LAGUERRE is Professor of Social Anthropology and Afro-American Studies and a Member of the Executive Committee of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California at Berkeley.