Of human bondage: Campesinos, coffee and capitalism on the peruvian frontier
Robin Shoemaker, The Peasants of El Dorado: Conflict and Contradiction in a Peruvian Frontier Settlement, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1981. Pp. 265; £13.75. This review article considers the way a recent study analyses a colonisation settlement in a coffee growing area located on the Eastern sub‐tropical forest area of Peru during the post‐reform era. It is argued that the study ignores both the presence within this ‘community ‘ of class division and antagonism together with their determinants, the process of capital accumulation. By misunderstanding the nature of debt bondage, it fails to recognise the crucial contribution of this relation to the process of indigenous capital accumulation in a context where labour is scarce.
Review essay: Slavery now: Unfree labour and modern capitalism
Capitalism and Unfree Labour: Anomaly or Necessity? Robert Miles. London and New York: Tavistock Publications. 1987. 250pp. £10.95 pbk. The New Helots: Migrants in the International Division of Labour. Robin Cohen. Aldershot: Gower Publishing Co. 1987. 290pp. £8.95 pbk; £27.50 hbk. Sugar and Modern Slavery: A Tale of Two Countries. Roger Plant. London: Zed Press, 1987. 177pp. £7.95 pbk; £24.95 hbk. Slavery in the Twentieth Century. Roger Sawyer. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1986. 274pp. £15.95 hbk.
Aspectos cuantitativos de la reforma agraria, 1969-1979
Incluye a modo de apendice un trabajo elaborado por J.M. Caballero y A. Chavez sobre la metodologia empleada para obtener coeficientes de ponderacion que permiten homogeneizar tierras de distintos tipos