{"product_id":"tobacco-on-the-periphery-jean-stubbs-9781914278051","title":"Tobacco on the Periphery: A Case Study in Cuban Labour History, 1860-1958","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of Cuban tobacco, whose agricultural and industrial development was fashioned as deftly as a Havana cigar around overseas trading interests. It traces the nineteenth-century growth of a strong tobacco oligarchy, peasant grower class and urban salaried work force, alongside slave and indentured labour, and examines how a prestigious manufacturing country was transformed into an exporter of leaf. Visibly poor peasant agriculture concealed foreign and home capital which, while creating some large plantations, used and even propagated a most extreme form of sharecropping. Well into the twentieth century, an increasingly embattled industry catered to dwindling luxury markets and an unstable, fluctuating home market with but a few relatively large, on the whole family, concerns and a proliferation of small sweatshop and outwork production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Stubbs penetrates the finer socio-political aspects of the radically changing nature and composition of peasantry and proletariat, including the interlacing of race, gender and skill, to take a closer look at areas of class action and national and class consciousness, be it through reformism, anarcho-syndicalism, revolutionary nationalism, socialism or communism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition expands on the 1985 original with a new Foreword and Preface, and other source material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Stubbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1914278054\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781914278051\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Amaurea Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.85d","brand":"Jean Stubbs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44138774757631,"sku":"9781914278051","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9d139bf-6106-48ea-8600-0ee1ddd3f5e2.jpg?v=1687901414","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tobacco-on-the-periphery-jean-stubbs-9781914278051","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}