Format:
Lit. S. 281-291
ISBN:
0822322021
Content:
Over two centuries, the sugar industry has deeply shaped Cuba's political, social and economic life. The article examines Cuba's social history from 1910 to 1934, when the sugar boom created significant labor shortages and labor mobility. The struggle of employers to secure labor and the survival of subsistence alternatives to wage labor in the modern sugar mill factories provided workers with a certain degree of autonomy to pursue own goals in a contexts of dependency and exploitation. (DÜI-Huj)
In:
Identity and struggle at the margins of the nation-state, Durham [u.a.] : Duke University Press, 1998, , Seite 260-291, 0822322021
In:
0822322188
In:
pages:260-291
Language:
English