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Title: |
Tobacco on the Periphery |
| Sub-title: |
A Case Study in Cuban Labour History 1860-1958 |
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| By (author): |
Jean Stubbs |
| ISBN10-13: |
1914278054 : 9781914278051 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
382 |
| Weight: |
.800 Kg. |
| Published: |
Amaurea Press - June 2023 |
| List Price: |
24.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 18 |
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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. |
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