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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Joana Salém Vasconcelos , Bhuvi LibianoPublisher: Haymarket Books Imprint: Haymarket Books ISBN: 9798888902332Pages: 332 Publication Date: 28 May 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword—English Edition Cuba’s Present and a Specter Haunting the Spectators Foreword—Brazilian Edition List of Tables, Charts, and Maps Cuban Provinces from 1940 to 1976 Introduction Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism 1 Modernization of Cuban Plantation (1902–1958) 1 Latifundium-Minifundium Land Tenure Structure 1.1 Between Latifundium and Minifundium 1.2 Origins of Structural Heterogeneity 1.3 Social Actors of Modern Plantation 2 Cropping Regimes: Sugarcane Fields in Wall Street 2.1 Military Order No.62 and Primitive Accumulation 2.2 Dance of the Millions 2.3 Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act of 1934 and the Jones-Costigan Amendment 2.4 Ascension of Cuban Saccharocracy 3 Labor Regime: the Curse of the Crowds 3.1 Statistics Cover-Up 3.2 A Portrait of Rural Misery 3.3 Structural Unemployment and tiempo muerto 4 The World Seen from Above 4.1 Batista and the Rockefeller-Sullivan 4.2 A Portrait of Saccharocracy 5 Revolution against Underdevelopment 5.1 The Moncada Program 5.2 Revolutionary Democratic Nationalism 5.3 Sierra Maestra Law No.3 2 First Agrarian Reform, Impulses and Impasses (1958–1963) 1 Transformation of the Land Tenure System 1.1 The Agrarian Reform Law of 1959 1.2 Nationalization Laws 1.3 A Portrait of Structural Transformation 2 Cooperatives or State Farms? 2.1 The Proletarian Peasant and the Scale Preservation 2.2 Agricultural Cooperatives 2.3 Granjas del Pueblo (People’s Farm) 2.4 Converting Cooperatives into Granjas 3 Peasantry: Principle of Voluntarism and anap 3.1 anap Foundation and Its Principles 3.2 Mistakes Made with the Peasantry 3.3 anap ’s “Administrativism” 3.4 Politics of Voluntary Collectivism 4 Agricultural Diversification: Disruption of the Double Articulation 4.1 Neocolonial Insertion Crisis: the Search for National Sovereignty 4.2 Increase of Internal Demand: Searching for Social Equity 4.3 Diversification: Searching for Economic Development 4.4 Structural Problems of Diversification: Extensive, Disorganized, and Inefficient 4.5 Intensification of Class Struggle and General Economic Trends in 1963 3 Second Agrarian Reform and the Sugar Paradox (1963–1967) 1 Transformation of the Land Tenure System 1.1 The Agrarian Reform Law of October 1963 1.2 Cyclone Flora 1.3 The Social Structure of the New Agriculture 1.4 A Combined Strategy: Sugar, Diversification and Technology 2 The Soviet Union and the Sugar Paradox 2.1 The 1964 Agreement 2.2 Back to Sugar 2.3 Inserted Revolution and the Paradox of the New Dependency 2.4 Third World: Arena for National Sovereignty 3 Agrarian Management: between Relative Autonomy and Centralization 3.1 Agrupamientos, Departamentos, Lotes (Grouping, Departments, Allotments) 3.2 Aspects of the Great Debate in Agriculture 4 Specialized Diversification and Technology-Intensive Model 4.1 Crop Performance between 1964 and 1970 4.2 Combinados and Special Plans: Modes of Diversification 4.3 Peasantry and Special Plans 5 Technological Dependency and Sugarcane Mechanization 5.1 Investment and Consumption 5.2 Tiempo Muerto in Reverse: Unemployment in Disguise 5.3 Paths and Detours of Technological Choice 4 The 1970 Harvest and Development Strategy (1967–1970) 1 Agrarian Structure and Development Strategy 1.1 Import Substituting Industrialization 1.2 Turnpike Strategy: the Return of “Comparative Advantages”? 1.3 Why Ten Million? 2 Revolutionary Offensive and Moral Economy 2.1 Moral Economy and Ideological Centralization 2.2 Collective Wage Agreement and Lack of Accounting Control 2.3 The Shrinking of the Peasantry 3 The 1970 Harvest: Plan and Reality 3.1 Simultaneous Battles 3.2 The Harvest in Numbers 3.3 Causes of Failure 3.4 Structural Distortions 4 Voluntary Work: between Consciousness and Coercion 4.1 Drop in Productivity and Elimination of the Foreman 4.2 Criticism of Volunteer Labor 4.3 The Militarization of Labor 4.4 Self-Criticism 5 Conclusion Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism 1 Geopolitical Implications: the Source of Surplus 1.1 The Transfer of Soviet Resource 1.2 Multilateral Payment Agreement 1.3 Cold War and Geopolitical Advantages 1.4 Joining the comecon 2 Peripheral Socialism and Rationality of the Possible 2.1 From Segregation to Egalitarianism 2.2 Development of the Productive Forces 2.3 Peripheral Socialism and Rationality of the Possible Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationJoana Salém Vasconcelos, has a Ph.D. on Economic History at University of São Paulo and a Master's Degree on Economic Development at State University of Campinas. She is coordinating editor of Latin American Perspectives (US) and associate researcher of Centro de Estudios de Historia Agraria en América Latina (CEHAL). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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