From Campesino to Worker. Review of Paul Hart's <em>Bitter Harvest: The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of the Zapatista Revolution, 1840- 1910</em> (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005)
Keywords
Latin American History, Latin American Politics, Capitalism, Zapatism
Keywords
Latin American History, Latin American Politics, Capitalism, Zapatism
Abstract
In his search for origins of the Zapatista rebellion of 1910, Paul Hart traces a century of agrarian transformation in the Mexican State of Morelos. It is, fundamentally, the painful story of the slow but inexorable privatization of common lands to commercial agriculture, the transition of self-sufficient (if poor and suffering) peasants into independent workers for capitalistic enterprise.
Published
2007-02-01
Section
Reviews / Reseñas