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Tobacco on the Periphery
ISBN-13:
9781914278075
Veröffentl:
2023
Seiten:
354
Autor:
Jean Stubbs
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Windows
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
Foreword, by Victor Bulmer-Thomas
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