Sugar

Focusing on cane and beet sugar, the author examines the global politics of sugar and how social relations are remade through sugar as it perpetuates inequality through its consumption, exchange, and production. He emphasizes how the circulation of sugar is structured by global capitalism, along with the differences in capitalist economies, and discusses the consumption of sugar and the relationship between its sweetness and the meaning of sugar-sweetened foods, including how taste is socialized, how eating is understood, and how food is provided. He addresses international trade relations and the problems created for national governments that want to protect domestic producers, the labor process and methods of exploitation used in different sugar industries, and the processes of land exploitation and related environmental problems. Distributed by Wiley. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)