> Robert Fogel has argued that core innovations in division of labor and
> capital work organization were first pioneered in the West Indies. The
> capital from the sugar colonies were critical financers of the factories
> that helped break city guilds and speed the replacement of craft production
> with factory production.
An aside about Robert Fogel. Was an editor in the late 40's of New Foundations, a journal of the Young Communist League. The run of New Foundations was reissued by Greenwood Press in their series Radical Periodicals in the USA issued in the early 70's. Alot of university libraries have it...Check out as well, Enquiry, in that series, edited by a Trotskyist Irving Kristol.
-- Michael Pugliese