Corporate Control of a Monocrop Economy

A Comment

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ID2744110
AuthorsJeffrey Brannon (The University of Texas at El Paso), Eric N Baklanoff (University of Alabama)
Year1983
Volume18
Issue3
Pages193-196
Publication date1983-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Research Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0023879100021130
OpenAlexW4312867547
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited2

Control of a Monocrop Economy: International Harvester and Yucatan's Henequen Industry during the Porfiriato"l is a major contribution to the body of knowledge on the development of the henequen industry in Yucatan, Mexico. It nevertheless falls short of one of its primary objectives "to ... resolve, an ongoing historiographical debate regarding the origins and impact of foreign corporate involvement in the Yucatan monocrop economy" (p. 72). In their haste to apply the theory of "collaborating elites" to the documented relationship between Olegario Molina y Compafiia and International Harvester Company, Joseph and Wells have failed to explore fully the implications of their own careful scholarship. As we will demonstrate in this note, Joseph and Wells do not present convincing evidence that IHC controlled the production and price of raw henequen fiber between 1902 and 1915 or that the agreement between Molina and IHC changed the qualitative relationship between Yucatan's henequen hacendados and major American consumers

Action (physics) · Business · Control (management) · Economics · Geography · Management · Monocropping · Physics · Political science · Corporate Taxation and Avoidance

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