Commercial Agriculture and Peasant Production : A Case Study of Agrarian Reformism and the Development of Capitalism in Northern Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
- Columbia, Estados Unidos : Columbia University, 1984.
- 291 p. ; 29 cm.
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Contenido: Introducción -- Colonization in Bolivia -- Theoretical Orientation -- Culture and Traditional Societies -- From dependency to Modes of Production -- Labor Organization and Peasant Production -- Metodology and Chapter Organization -- Fron Latifundia to Agricultural Enterprise -- Geographical Setting -- Early Settlement and Commercial Activity -- The Rubber Bomm and the german Commercial Houses -- The Chaco War and Its Aftermath -- The National Revolution and the Agrarian Reform in Santa Cruz -- The United States and the Opening of the Oriente -- The Growth and Expansion of Capitalist Agriculture -- Consolidating Agriculture in the Sixties -- Agricultural Credit in the Seventies -- Land Consolidation -- The Concentration in Obispo Santisteban -- The Largest Growers -- Cocaine -- Widen Razuk -- Peasant Colonization in Obispo Santisteban -- The Settlement Porcess and Land Acquisition -- The original Settlers -- Lan Acquisition an Legal Claim to property -- Land Consolidation -- The organization of Production and the Spread of Sugar Cane -- Wage labor and Semi-Proletarization -- Market Relations in Northern Santa Cruz -- Labor Cost and Competition with Capitalist Producers -- Domestic Labor -- Merchants and middlemen in Northern Santa Cruz -- Transportation -- Cassava -- Rice -- Corn -- The Quota System and Sugar Cane Marketing -- Merchants and basic Subsistence Commdities -- Agricultural Cooperatives and Rural development -- Bolivia Cooperatives and Foreign finance -- CCAM -- Mechanization -- The emergence of CCAM in the Three communities -- Don Ignacio Betanzos -- Don jaime Vásquez -- Don Miguel Antelo -- CCAM Administrative Structure and Cane Grower dominance -- CCAM and the Semi-proletariat -- CAAM and Social Change -- Conclusion.