Plantation Agriculture and Social Control in Northern Peru, 1875–1933 /

Plantation Agriculture and Social Control in Northern Peru, 1875–1933 / / Michael J. Gonzales.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the social, economic, and political landscape of Peru was transformed profoundly. Within a decade of the country’s disastrous defeat by Chile during the War of the Pacific, the export economy was recovering on the strength of a variety of agr...

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Gonzales, Michael J.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and Conventions
  • Introduction: Modern Peru, Plantation Agriculture, and Social Control
  • Part I. The Development of the Sugar Industry
  • 1. The Physical and Historical Setting
  • 2. Planters and Capital, 1860-1933
  • 3. Land and Technology, 1860-1933
  • Part II. The Organization, Recruitment, and Control of Labor
  • 4. The Organization of Labor at Cayaltí
  • 5. The Chinese Worker, 1875-1900
  • 6. Culture and Social Control, 1865-1905
  • 7. Labor Contracting, 1880-1933
  • 8. The Plantation Community, 1890-1933
  • 9. Confrontation
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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