Search Results for colono

...Carmen Soliz Abstract When analyzing the effects of the 1952 Bolivian Revolution in the countryside, scholars have highlighted the political role of the colonos (tenants) and the extended program of land redistribution of large estates that started soon after the government decreed the agrarian...

... concessions from the state including interest-free loans, land grants, transportation subsidies, and per capita bonuses for every colono (colonist) recruited. Friendship and kinship groups tended to dominate among company shareholders, thereby replicating and reinforcing preexisting oligarchies in Brazilian...

... the significance was (p. 66). The colonato regime, she asserts contradictorily given her conflict model, embodied not only the colonos’ demands but also the optimal arrangement for the planters, since it extracted the labor of wives and children as well as male workers, and guaranteed the presence...

... that constituted islands of modernity in the late-developing east. Blazing Cane does an excellent job reconstructing the lives of workers in both the batey and in the fields. But there is another protagonist in the book that has received much less attention from historians: the cane farmers or colonos who...

... wealth. Klein creates an indirect index of wealth: the number of peasants living on each estate. But this approach does not work, as can be shown by applying it to three Cochabamba haciendas. Hacienda Montecillo had a labor force of 51 colonos (service tenants); Hacienda Arocagua, 121 colonos...

... of them constructed at the end of the nineteenth century, challenges the “radical transformation” claim. Ayala’s arguments regarding the role that colonos played in the industry are based on his analysis of Cuban sugar farmers. His examination of Puerto Rican and Dominican sugar farmers is less...

... leaders on plantations. On “La Presa,” a large plantation in Coatepeque, the National Guard evicted 345 families in the middle of a storm, in retribution (they claimed) for the union’s supposed call for expropriation and redistribution of the land to the colonos. In reality, the union had demanded higher...

... the 1880s. The state set out to transform the frontier by settling the Mapuche on reducciones (reservations), auctioning large tracts of land to private individuals, and promoting the settlement of now “vacant” lands with foreign colonos (colonists or settlers). However, the project of promoting...

... labor code. 26 This decree detailed the duties, rights, and responsibilities of the patron (employer), the colono (“resident worker”), and the temporalista or jornalero (“temporary or day laborer”). It guaranteed the enforceability of debt contracts for personal labor, and articles 31-37...

... business leaders were declaring all the region’s major products in a state of crisis. 8 To Vargas and Aranha the situation urgently required remedial action. The postwar economic slump was also accentuating social strains within the region. By the 1920s the northern highland or colono zone...

... for transport of its goods, the arrenderos undoubtedly interpreted this gesture in traditional Andean terms. For them, it confirmed the patrones’ role as redistributive agents. Further reinforcing this view, SAGIC provided seed on credit to its colonos when they ran short because of a poor harvest...

... but primarily as the result of a similar institutionalization of tenant relations and the rise of a massive squatters’ movement that transformed renters into property owners. Women, so prominent in the renters’ movement, lost power in the new clientelistic organization of the colonos . The later decline...

..., the economic situation of several hundred thousand colono families in the postslavery era is subsumed in the baseless assertion that wages were higher in Argentina. Here, Lesser revives the tired mythology that immigrant coffee colonos everywhere and always suffered unmitigated exploitation, degradation...

..., immigrants toiled alongside enslaved workers. On the eve of abolition in Brazil, Ibicaba's labor force included 270 European colonos , 320 enslaved workers, 136 ingênuos , and 27 freed slaves. ( Ingênuos were minors born to enslaved mothers after Brazil's 1871 Free Womb Law, who, although technically free...

... planters to prefer European colonos to Brazilian freedmen (p. 92). After the refineries (engenhos centrais) were founded, foreign capitalists speculated on and made profit from the venture; in the process, they set Brazil’s sugar industry back two decades in its modernization efforts. When...

... vez profundamente racista y xenófobo, y estigmatizó a los colonos chinos como causantes de muchos de los problemas de la sociedad sonorense de la época. Cárdenas estudia cómo ese sentimiento nacionalista permeó a las clases populares y a las elites económicas y políticas regionales. El ensayo de...

...—as to make them difficult for any but a narrowly focused specialist. Gertz does, nevertheless, sketch a good case that “material” rivalries were at the root of the enduring hostility of nativist elites for colonos . Were his book not so very succinct, he might have come closer to proving it. ...

... are always protected by a faceless bureaucracy. It’s no surprise, then, that most of the colonos moving to other less productive soil come from the high-yielding provinces (p. 191). An exhaustive study of Panama’s agricultural conditions and potentialities, this book has appeal for the expert as well...

... activities of such a group in the Yungas region during the 1920s in “Agricultural Adaptation in Bolivia,” Geographical Review , 19 (Apr. 1929), 253. Rafael A. Reyeros refers to the Oruro Rural Society, an hacendado interest group founded in 1942 to combat a colono strike, in Historia , p. 187. 67...

... a national bourgeoisie, which others have claimed was missing in Cuba, in the colonos or cane farmers who were politically influential throughout the Batista period and into the early years of the revolution, but whose very success in protecting their own position against the foreign-owned sugar mills led...