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

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Vincent Peloso

Summary

Analyses the social and economic relationships governing the production of cotton in the Pisco Valley, an area of Peru's south coast. This book examines the interdependence of the planters, managers, and peasants. It offers a view 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
• Assisted by: Walter D. Mignolo (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.1999
• EAN: 9780822322467
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2246-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 463 g
• Series: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Anthropologie, Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Peru, Amerikanische Geschichte, 1500 bis heute