The Caribbeans history is inseparable from sugar and the crop is still an important feature in the economics of many islands from Cuba to Barbados. In Jamaica entire communities depend on the sugar industry earning a precarious living on oldfashioned plantations. What is life like on a sugar plantation at the end of the 20th century What will happen if the sugar industry collapses How do the povertystricken canecutters of rural Jamaica fit into this global industry This work looks at the worl