Jean Stubbs 
Tobacco on the Periphery [EPUB ebook] 
A Case Study in Cuban Labour History, 1860-1958

الدعم

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 nineteenth-century growth of a strong tobacco oligarchy, peasant grower class and urban salaried work force, alongside slave and indentured labour, and examines how a prestigious manufacturing country was transformed into an exporter of leaf. Visibly poor peasant agriculture concealed foreign and home capital which, while creating some large plantations, used and even propagated a most extreme form of sharecropping. Well into the twentieth century, an increasingly embattled industry catered to dwindling luxury markets and an unstable, fluctuating home market with but a few relatively large, on the whole family, concerns and a proliferation of small sweatshop and outwork production.

Jean Stubbs penetrates the finer 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, be it through reformism, anarcho-syndicalism, revolutionary nationalism, socialism or communism.

This new edition expands on the 1985 original with a new Foreword and Preface, and other source material.

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قائمة المحتويات

Foreword, by Victor Bulmer-Thomas

Preface to the new edition

Preface to the original edition

Introdution: A changing world tobacco economy

Part 1: Development and distortion of Cuban tobacco

  • Don Tabaco, 1817-88

  • Enter monopoly capital, 1888-1902

  • Legacy to past prosperity, 1902-24

  • Mechanization and recession, 1925-33

  • New Deal for tobacco, 1934-58

  • The peripheral mode of production

  • Part 2: Relations of tobacco production

    7. The tobacco peasantry and proletariat

    8. Labour aristocrats?

    Part 3: Tobacco, nation and class

    9. Militancy and the growth of the unions

    10. Early reformism and anarcho-syndicalism

    11. Revolutionary nationalism of the 1900s

    12. Cigar makers on the defensive

    13. The sleeping lion awakes

    14. The big tobacco unions of 1936-48

    15. The machine and the anti-union war

    Epilogue: A new twist

    Appendix:

    A. Graphs

    B. Statistics

    C. Biographies of interviewees

    D. Archival documents

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index

    Work on tobacco by Jean Stubbs

    About the author

    عن المؤلف

    First person in the UK to hold the title of Reader in Economics of Latin America (1988), he became Professor of Economics in 1990, at Queen Mary College, London. From 1992 to 1998, he was the Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies (University of London). In recognition of his work with the Institute, he received honours from the governments of Brazil and Colombia, and was awarded an OBE. In 2001, he became Director of Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), for which he was honoured by the British government with a CMG in 2006. He subsequently became a Visiting Professor at Florida International University, and is now Professor Emeritus of the University of London, Senior Distinguished Fellow of the School of Advanced Studies (University of London), Honorary Professor of the Institute of the Americas (University College London), and Associate Fellow in the United States and Americas Programme at Chatham House.

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