Tobacco on the Periphery: A Case Study in Cuban Labour History 1860-1958

di Jean Stubbs (Autore)

Amaurea Press, 2023

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.

• Autore: Jean Stubbs
• Editore: Amaurea Press
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 382 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 800 gr.
• EAN: 9781914278051

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