Author: Carmelo Mesa-LagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor supply
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Labor Force, Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment in Cuba: 1899-1970
Author: Carmelo Mesa-LagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor supply
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Unemployment and Underemployment in the Rural Sectors of the Less Developed Countries
Author: David L. JesseePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Cuban Sugar Policy from 1963 to 1970
Author: Heinrich BrunnerPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822976153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
In 1963 Cuba launched a program to develop its economy by expanding its sugar production and export trade. Cuban economists believed that through intensive development of this leading sector, they could generate capital to invest in manufacturing and thus move away from a one-crop economy.After providing background information on Cuba's prerevolutionary economy, Brunner explores the effects of Communist ideology and the U.S. embargo on the country's resources and trade, and analyzes the problems Cuba faced in shifting from trade with the U.S. to trade with the Soviet Union and Soviet bloc. He evaluates their implementation of the development plan, assessing the sugar industry within Cuba as well as how its accelerated development affected the rest of the domestic economy.
Inside the Cuban Revolution
Author: Julia SweigPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Castro and Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Llano. Granted unprecedented access to the classified records of Castro's 26th of July Movement's underground operatives--the only scholar inside or outside of Cuba allowed access to the complete collection in the Cuban Council of State's Office of Historic Affairs--she details the debates between Castro's mountain-based guerrilla movement and the urban revolutionaries in Havana, Santiago, and other cities.
Cuba
Author: Professor Jorge I Doma-NguezPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674034280
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Upon publication in the late 1970s this book was the first major historical analysis of twentieth-century Cuba. Focusing on the way Cuba has been governed, and in particular on the way a changing elite has made claims to legitimate rule, it carefully examines each of Cuba's three main political eras: the first, from Independence in 1902 to the Presidency of Gerardo Machado in 1933; the second, under Batista, from 1934 until 1958; and finally, Castro's revolution, from 1959 to the present. Jorge DomÃnguez discusses the political roles played by interest groups, mass organizations, and the military. He also investigates the impact of international affairs on Cuba and provides the first printed data on many aspects of political, economic, and social change since 1959. He deals in depth with agrarian politics and peasant protest since 1937, and his concluding chapter on Cuba's present culture is a fascinating insight into a society which--though vitally important--remains mysterious to most readers in the United States. Cuba's role in international affairs is vastly greater than its size. The revolution led by Fidel Castro, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the missile crisis in 1962, the underwriting of revolution in Latin America and recently in Africa--all these events have thrust Cuba onto the modern world stage. Anyone hoping to understand this country and its people, and above all its changing systems of government, will find this book essential.
Cuba's Second Economy
Author: Jorge Perez-LopezPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351293583
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Without doubt, Cuba is facing its most serious economic challenge in nearly thirty-five years of revolutionary rule. There is consensus that as the official, centrally planned economy has faltered, ordinary citizens eke out a living only by engaging in under-the-table, unrecorded, and mostly illegal activities. In fact, this "second economy" is growing by leaps and bounds. This volume sketches the contours of the very complex phenomenon of the second economy of socialist Cuba, and discusses its evolution over time, as well as the role that it may play in the transition to a market economy on the island. The economic crisis of the 1990s has propelled the second economy from behind the scenes to center stage. Not only have black markets mushroomed, but second economy activities connected to the free-market that the Castro government has traditionally discouraged or even prosecuted are now being incorporated into the government's own economic strategy. Self-employment, cultivation of individual plots, and the use of foreign currencies to buy or sell goods, are now promoted with considerable enthusiasm by the leadership. Perez-Lopez examines different ways of thinking about unregulated economic activities that have been set forth in the literature and concludes that the concept of the second economy is the most appropriate for Cuba. He brings together available information from a multitude of sources on the manifestations of the second economy in Cuba and of its operation. Cuba's Second Economy is a timely study of an economic system in crisis. It will be of interest to economists, political scientists, policymakers, and Latin America area scholars.
Cuba in the World
Author: Cole BlasierPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Since the 1970s, Cuba has greatly expanded its participation in world affairs. What changes in its leadership, economy, and armed forces explain this increased participation? How do Cuban ties with Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Africa, Israel, and the socialist countries reveal Cuban purposes and affect U.S.-Cuban rapprochement? Cuba in the World addresses these and other important questions in the most comprehensive and authoritative review of Cuban foreign policies since the Revolution.
Laboring for the State
Author: Rachel HynsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107188679
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The Cuban revolutionary government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state.
Cuban Political Economy
Author: Andrew ZimbalistPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429721951
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This comprehensive and authoritative book assesses in theoretical and empirical terms some of the most widely debated issues in the study of Cuban political economy. It presents a broad critique of the mainstream scholarship in the United States on Cuban political economy.
Labour and Development in Rural Cuba
Author: Dharam P. GhaiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349097187
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description