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Tobacco On The Periphery eBook

A Case Study In Cuban Labour History, 1860-1958

de Jean Stubbs
idioma: inglês
Editor: Distributed By Ingram Spark, junho de 2023 ‧
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This is the story of Cuban tobacco, whose agricultural and industrial development was fashioned as deftly as a Havana cigar around overseas trading interests. It traces the nineteenth-century growth of a strong tobacco oligarchy, peasant grower class and urban salaried work force, alongside slave and indentured labour, and examines how a prestigious manufacturing country was transformed into an exporter of leaf. Visibly poor peasant agriculture concealed foreign and home capital which, while creating some large plantations, used and even propagated a most extreme form of sharecropping. Well into the twentieth century, an increasingly embattled industry catered to dwindling luxury markets and an unstable, fluctuating home market with but a few relatively large, on the whole family, concerns and a proliferation of small sweatshop and outwork production.


Jean Stubbs penetrates the finer socio-political aspects of the radically changing nature and composition of peasantry and proletariat, including the interlacing of race, gender and skill, to take a closer look at areas of class action and national and class consciousness, be it through reformism, anarcho-syndicalism, revolutionary nationalism, socialism or communism.


This new edition expands on the 1985 original with a new Foreword and Preface, and other source material.

Tobacco On The Periphery

A Case Study In Cuban Labour History, 1860-1958

de Jean Stubbs

Propriedade Descrição
ISBN: 9781914278075
Editor: Distributed By Ingram Spark
Data de Lançamento: junho de 2023
Idioma: Inglês
Páginas: 354
Tipo de produto: eBook
Formato e Compatibilidade:
Classificação Temática: eBooks em Inglês > História > História em Geral
eBooks em Inglês > História > História da América
EAN: 9781914278075
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