Peasants on Plantations
Subtitle: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru (Latin America Otherwise)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780822322290
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Anthropology; Economic history; Peru; Labor; History Of Labor; Politics - Current Events; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Personnel management; History: World; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Latin America - South America; Anthropology/Ethnography; History, Latin American; cloth; Cotton trade; Pisco River Valley; Cotton plantation workers; History; Peasantry
First sentence: An obscure, unpretentious plantation in the Pisco valley became a setting in the middle of the nineteenth century for profound social change in Peru.