Peasants on Plantations - Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru

An account of the way social relations governing the production of cotton in Peru's South Coast changed as capitalism penetrated Peru's agrarian base; the analysis is unusual in that the author looks at the plantation system from a "peasant" poi

About the author

Vincent C. Peloso is Associate Professor of History at Howard University.

Summary

After the 1854 abolition of slavery in Peru, a new generation of plantation owners turned to a system of peasant tenantry to maintain cotton production through the use of cheap labour. Tis book offers an account of the monumental struggle between planters and peasants that was fundamental in shaping the agrarian history of Peru.

Product details

• Authors: Peloso, Vincent Peloso, Vincent C. Peloso, Sh
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.03.1999
• EAN: 9780822322290
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2229-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Weight: 721 g
• Illustrations: 4 b&w photographs, 11 tables, 4 maps, 2 figures
• Series: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Südamerika, Amerikanische Geschichte, Politics / Current Events, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations