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list price: $99.00
edition:eBook
category: Political Science
published: Nov 2011
ISBN:9780774843027
publisher:
UBC Press
Description
This book is a detailed analysis of the evolution of state-sponsored agricultural co-operativism in Peru, an Andean country with high levels of land concentration and widespread rural poverty. Most Peruvian agricultural co-operatives were organized during the military populist government of Velasco Alvarado which, after radical land reform, transformed expropriated estates into co-operatives. From the start, these projects became subject to multiple pressures that ranged from unfavourable government economic policies -- designed to promote import-substitution industrialization at the expense of the agricultural sector -- to the growth of the co-operative bureaucracy and the deterioration of labour discipline.
Contributor Notes
Tanya Korovkin is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and a fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean.
