This book explores the impact of resource extraction and the dynamics of great powers competing for natural resources in the Caribbean. It is a major contribution to development studies literature, appealling to policymakers, students and scholars of Development Studies and Economics, Sociology, Politics, and International Relations.

Dennis C. Canterbury is Professor of Sociology at Eastern Connecticut State University, USA. He specializes in the sociology of development and the sociology of labour. His recent books include Caribbean Development in the New Multipolar World Order (2022), Neoliberal Democratization and New Authoritarianism (2019), and Neoextractivism and Capitalist Development (2018).

Introduction Part 1: Extractive capitalism in the Caribbean: Labor, donor landscape, and China 1 Extractivist capitalism and labor: A theoretical outline 2 Caribbean labor in the 21st century 3 The donor landscape for extractive industries investment in the Caribbean 4 The increasing influence of China in resource extraction in the Caribbean Part 2: Case studies: Guyana, Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti and Puerto Rico 5 Extractivism and labor in Guyana 6 Bauxite, Michael Manley, and the workers without history 7 Catching hell in paradise: Environmental justice and superfluous labor in Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico in the 21st century Part 3: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Labor 8 Caribbean labor market outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic 9 COVID-19 and the triple crises for Caribbean labor 10 Conclusion