What the Zeeks uprising reveals: Development issues, moral economy, and the urban lumpenproletariat in Jamaica

Urban Anthropology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-113

  Price, Charles ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENTELISM; GLOBALIZATION; POPULAR PROTEST; URBAN SOCIETY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA;

EID: 3142776642     PISSN: 08946019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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