Subject(s): plantation Society -- Plantation in third world economy : Plantation system and plantation economy, plantation economies of world, peasants in political economy of plantations -- Political economy of change in plantation economy and society: Colonial expansion and plantation frontier, plantation in political and social change, plantation and economic development -- Social and political dimensions of plantation society : Demographic characteristics of plantation economies, social organization and structure in plantation society, race, caste and class, political organization and distribution of power, plantation society -- Changing scenes in plantation development : People, labour/labor and land- post emancipation adjustments in slave plantation economies, patterns of change in new plantation regions, growth and concentration of corporate capital- new imperialism and search for raw materials -- Dynamics of growth and nature of metro politan plantation enterprise : Dynamics of growth of enterprise, ascendancy of metropolitan enterprise in plantation production and trade, size, organization and structure of modern plantation enterprises, political and economic aspects of enterprise operations -- Social costs of plantations- resources misallocation in plantation economy : Considerations regarding efficiency of resources use, company plantation and resource- use distortions, distortions of resources use with tenant plantations, brief comments on family plantations, resource underutilization alongside underconsumption and poverty -- Dynamics of underdevelopment with plantation agriculture : Economic development impact of plantation, conditions of agricultural development and economic growth, structural factors and economics of underdevelopment, social economy of underdevelopment, dynamics of underdevelopment, note on balance of social costs and benefits -- Possibilities for change and transportation : major development obstacles and previous attempts at change, overcoming obstacles to development- theoretical possibilities and issues, politics and social dynamics of transformation and change -- strategy of transformation and general third world scene