NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -The main proponent of plantation society theory is Raymond Smith (1967) who used Guyana as a model representative of Caribbean society.

Detailed explanation-2: -A society referred to as a ‘plantation society’ is characterized by the preponderance of agriculture focused on export crops, generally centred on sugar cane, and by a social and power structure directly organised around this dominant activity.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Beckford’s usage the term ‘plantation economy’, as an analytical concept, applies to ‘those countries where the internal and the external dimensions of the plantation system dominate the country’s economic, social and political structure and its relations with the rest of the world’.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lloyd Best and Kari Polanyi Levitt created the Theory of the Plantation Economy as an analytical tool for understanding the causes of underdevelopment in the Caribbean region. The theory provides a break from the classical understanding of developing economies as simply pre-industrialized societies.