Politics of Agricultural Co-Operativism
Peru, 1969-1983
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774843027
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $99.00
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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.
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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.