{"product_id":"9798888902332","title":"Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution","description":"Author: Joana Salem Vasconcelos\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9798888902332\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Sep 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 332 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution, the Brazilian historian Joana Salem Vasconcelos presents in clear language the complicated challenge of overcoming the condition of Latin America's underdevelopment through a revolutionary process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on diverse historical sources, she demonstrates why the sugar plantation economic structure in Cuba was not entirely changed by the 1959 Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVasconcelos narrates in detail the three dimensions of Cuban agrarian transformation during the decisive 1960s  the land tenure system, the crop regime, and the labour regime  and its social and political actors. She explains the paths and detours of Cuban agrarian policies, contextualized in a labour-intensive economy that needs desperately to increase productivity and, at the same time, promised widely to emancipate workers from labour exploitation. Cuban agrarian and economic contradictions are well-synthetized with the concept of Peripheral Socialism. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47925127413918,"sku":"ING-9798888902332","price":53.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9798888902332.jpg?v=1782960263","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9798888902332","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}