Question

Sydney mintz conducted research on sugar production in puerto rico in the 1970s and 1980s, examining the way local communities were affected by capitalism. what other problems did his work help to illustrate?

Answer 1

His work also illustrated the case of Globalization. In Globalization, the whole world becomes interconnected and hence the world becomes a global village in which all the sellers and buyers all over the world are interconnected. In this case with globalization, competition increased in Puerto rico sugarcane market which the locals were not able to handle and hence they were affected negatively to a large extent.