Labour, Ecology and History in a Puerto Rican Plantation Region
"Classic" Rural Proletarians Revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5804252 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan A Giusti-Cordero (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | S4 |
| Pages | 53-82 |
| Publication date | 1996-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859000114270 |
| OpenAlex | W2108413941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 32 |
The sugar workers of large-scale capitalist plantations in the Caribbean are familiar figures in social history. As portrayed in Sidney Mintz's landmark research in southern Puerto Rico, sugar workers are manifest rural proletarians: landless wage labourers exploited by "land-and-factory combines". In Mintz's studies, Puerto Rican sugar workers became the classic case of modern rural proletarians. Such rural proletarians are the dichotomous opposite of peasants: hence given rural populations are either peasants or rural proletarians
Proletariat · Puerto rican · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
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The West Indies
Types of Latin American Peasantry
Was the Plantation Slave a Proletarian
Routledge Revivals
The Sugar Economy of Puerto Rico
Caribbean Transformations
Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour
Cultural Adaptation and Resistance on St. John
The Rise and Fall of Puerto Rico as a Social Laboratory, 1945-1965
Continuity and Change in Latin America
Village Life and Labour
Plantation Systems of the New World
Peasant Economics and the Development of Capitalist Agriculture in the Cauca Valley, Colombia
Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar
Work and Culture
Cuba
La sociedad del azúcar en Puerto Rico
Historia general de Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico, Freedom and Power in the Caribbean
The People of Puerto Rico
Le sens pratique
The Andean Rural Proletarians
Cultural Adaptation and Resistance on St John
The peasant concept in anthropology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |