Compartir
Tobacco on the Periphery: A Case Study in Cuban Labour History, 1860-1958 (en Inglés)
Jean Stubbs
(Autor)
·
Amaurea Press
· Tapa Blanda
Tobacco on the Periphery: A Case Study in Cuban Labour History, 1860-1958 (en Inglés) - Stubbs, Jean ; Bulmer-Thomas, Victor
32,09 €
33,78 €
Ahorras: 1,69 €
Elige la lista en la que quieres agregar tu producto o crea una nueva lista
✓ Producto agregado correctamente a la lista de deseos.
Ir a Mis Listas
Origen: Estados Unidos
(Costos de importación incluídos en el precio)
Se enviará desde nuestra bodega entre el
Miércoles 05 de Junio y el
Lunes 24 de Junio.
Lo recibirás en cualquier lugar de España entre 1 y 5 días hábiles luego del envío.
Reseña del libro "Tobacco on the Periphery: A Case Study in Cuban Labour History, 1860-1958 (en Inglés)"
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.
