Article: Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley of Peru.(Review)

Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley of Peru. By Vincent C. Peloso (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1999. xxi plus 251pp. $15.95/paperback).

The subject of this monograph is the history of labor on hacienda Palto, a cotton plantation in the Pisco River Valley on the southern coast of Peru. The time period is from just before the War of the Pacific (1879-1883) to 1940. Hacienda Palto belonged to the important Aspillaga family, one of the leading Peruvian families of the late nineteenth-century.

Author Peloso develops three parallel themes in this detailed study. The first theme is the shifts in ...

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