The author first shows that the Caribbean is comparatively highly urbanized and that this trend toward urbanization occurred mainly since World War II. He maintains that contemporary Caribbean urbanization can only be understood in terms of the joint processes of global convergence-divergence. Convergence represents the universal adoption of Western norms of consumption whilst divergence connotes increasingly varied production possibilities between nations owing to the International Division of Labour. However it is shown that owing to the differential processes of conservation and dissolution of traditional pre-capitalist forms convergence on Western patterns of consumption impacts upon different social groups within the Caribbean region in a highly unequal manner. (EXCERPT)
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