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Paget Henry - Globalization and the Deformation of the Antiguan Working Class (8015 words) |
 | This was the zero position from which the Antiguan working class would have to fight its way back to freedom and owning its labor; the position from which it would have to fashion itself into a socio-political force that could reclaim its liberty, re-establish its humanity, and transform the social order. |
| The rise of liberal capitalism confronted Antiguan planters with two crucial problems: (1) how to maintain their mercantile economy in the new era of liberal capitalism, since they either refused or were unable to make the conversion; and (2) how to secure the labor of the working class now that it was legally free. |
| The slow down of the Antiguan economy in the decade of the 1990s can be traced in part to the rather passive and non-dynamic nature of the responses of this class to the more competitive nature of informatic capitalism. |
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