{"product_id":"9781914278051-tobacco-on-the-periphery","title":"Tobacco on the Periphery","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Case Study in Cuban Labour History 1860-1958\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition expands on the 1985 original, adding other source material, with a new Preface and a Foreword by Victor Bulmer-Thomas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 luxurymarkets 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55644420997494,"sku":"9781914278051","price":21.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_30695987.jpg?v=1747324488","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781914278051-tobacco-on-the-periphery","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}