Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe two basic problems addressed in this wide-ranging study are the stagnation of food production and the dynamics of rural poverty. The facts of the agrarian crisis in Latin America show that cheap semiproletarian labor on the vast export-oriented and mechanized landed estates of today leads to destruction of the peasantry. The process is accompanied by ecological collapse, demographic explosion, urban migration, and increasing landlessness... This volumeis tightly organized; the material is logically presented with a minimum of professional jargon. It deserves a careful reading. Latin America in Books, January 1983
Table of ContentsPreface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Laws of Motion in the Center-Periphery Structure: The Underlying Forces
Chapter 2. Agrarian Crisis in Latin America: The Facts
Chapter 3. Transformation of the Agrarian Structure and the Pessantry
Chapter 4. Disarticulated Accumulation and Agrarian Crisis
Chapter 5. The Political Economy of Reformism
Chapter 6. Types and Consequences of Land Reform
Chapter 7. The Strategy of Integrated Rural Development
Chapter 8. The Agrarian Question and Change in Latin America: Conclusions
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
