On the routes not chosen: Commercial capital and coffee production in the Central Valley of Costa Rica
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Estat: | Versión publicada |
| Data de publicació: | 2002 |
| Descripció: | The major comparative purpose of this brief analysis, then, will not be to continue with that "praise of peasant-based capitalism. Rather, in Costa Rica, long considered a virtual "limit case" of responsiveness and success by smallholders in coffee production worldwide, we will focus on a virtually "lower limit" case, an area of radically inferior soil fertility, older population and greater inequality of access to land of all kinds or quality. In Desamparados-Tarrazú, south of the capital city of San José, small farmers also survived and eventually made common cause with their wealthier brothers in other coffee-growing areas to build a thriving cooperative movement after the 1948 Revolution that so favored them. However, in comparison with other neighboring districts, the route that would lead them to such triumph meant defeating both a more dominant landowner and beneficiary group and a more impoverished and polarized social structure. |
| Pais: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Institution: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Idioma: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/10225 |
| Accés en línia: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/historia/article/view/10225 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Paraula clau: | Commercial Capital Coffee Agricultural Production Peasantry Landowner Twentieth Century Costa Rica capital comercial café producción agrícola clase campesina terrateniente siglo XX |