Tobacco on the Periphery

Tobacco on the Periphery A Case Study in Cuban Labour History, 1860-1958

Second edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 growth of a tobacco oligarchy, peasant grower class and urban salaried workforce, alongside slave and indentured labour. Well into the 20th-century, an increasingly embattled industry catered to dwindling luxury markets and an unstable home market. Jean Stubbs penetrates the socio-political aspects of the radically changing nature and composition of peasantry and proletariat, including the interlacing of race, gender and skill, to take a closer look at areas of class action and national and class consciousness. This new edition expands on the 1985 original with a new Foreword and Preface, and other source material.

Book information

ISBN: 9781914278068
Publisher: Amaurea Creative Productions Ltd
Imprint: Amaurea Press
Pub date:
Edition: Second edition
DEWEY: 331.763371097291
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 354
Weight: 762g
Height: 230mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 25mm