On the routes not chosen: Commercial capital and coffee production in the Central Valley of Costa Rica

 

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Συγγραφέας: Gudmundson, Lowell
Μορφή: artículo original
Κατάσταση:Versión publicada
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης:2002
Περιγραφή: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.
Χώρα:Portal de Revistas UNA
Ίδρυμα:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Γλώσσα:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/10225
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/historia/article/view/10225
Λέξη-Κλειδί :Commercial Capital
Coffee
Agricultural Production
Peasantry
Landowner
Twentieth Century
Costa Rica
capital comercial
café
producción agrícola
clase campesina
terrateniente
siglo XX