Reclaiming the worker's property
Control grabbing, farmworkers and the Las Tunas Accords in Nicaragua
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2157140 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bradley Wilson (0000-0001-8116-1196, corresponding author), Bradley R Wilson |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 747-763 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066150.2014.992338 |
| OpenAlex | W2053201254 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 26 |
In this paper I explore a land grabbing resistance movement composed of unemployed coffee workers in Central Nicaragua. Between 1996 and 2000, a private agro-export conglomerate appropriated worker-owned coffee estates previously designated as the Area Propiedad del Los Trabajadores (APT), or the Worker's Property. Following mass protests between 2001 and 2004, worker representatives from the Asociación de Trabajadores del Campo (ATC) and government officials negotiated and signed the Las Tunas Accords which provided redistributed land from 18 of those coffee estates to 2500 families. Drawing on interviews with movement participants carried out between 2003 and 2012, I argue that the roots of the control grab and the resistance movement can be traced to the contradictions of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN)-led agrarian reform in the 1980s, the conflicts over property in the post-war period and the failed consensus on how rural labor should organize and be represented in the face of land re-concentration and capitalist consolidation
Agrarian reform · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Business · Consolidation (business · Economics · Economy · Geography · Land grabbing · Land reform · Political economy · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,55 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |