Plantations, Peasants, and State: A Study of the Mode of Sugar Production in GuyanaCenter for Afro-American Studies, University of California, 1984 - 214 páginas Study of the relationship between sugar cane plantations, peasant farmers and the state in Guyana - describes the historical background to the development of the sugar industry under colonialism, its economic role, and the rise of multinational enterprises; examines agricultural marketing, rural employment and capital formation aspects of sugar; discusses production relations, profitability, technical aspects, the standard of living in rural areas, transition of state farms, etc.; as well as an appropriate institutional framework. References. |
Contenido
The Plantation and the Colonial Slave Mode | 6 |
Indentured Immigration Free Labor and | 16 |
Sugar as a Transnational Industry and | 27 |
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Otras 8 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
acreage acres agricultural Annual Arbitration Tribunals areas assets average Bank of Guyana bauxite Booker McConnell Ltd British Guiana cane farmers cane farming capital employed capital expenditure capitalist Caribbean chapter Commission of Inquiry cooperative costs crisis crop data in table decline diversification dominant dustry earnings economy of Guyana employment empoldered estate lands expansion export finance Government of Guyana Guyana Sugar Corporation Guyana Sugar Producers Guyanese important income increase indentured indicated internal investments labor force land levels major ment million mode of production molasses nationalist nationalization operations output pattern payments peasantry percent period plantation planters political profit rates ratio Rehabilitation Fund relations return on capital revenue rice rural sector slavery social SOURCE strike structure sucrose sugar companies sugar economy sugar estates sugar industry sugar prices Sugar Producers Association sugar production sugar workers sugarcane cultivation surplus tion transformation transnational unions wage yields
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King Sugar: Jamaica, the Caribbean, and the World Sugar Industry Michele Harrison Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Neoliberal Democratization and New Authoritarianism Dennis Compton Canterbury Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |