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Tierra, trabajo y tecnología en el desarrollo del capitalismo agrario en Costa Rica

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  • Mario Samper Kutschbach

    (Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica)

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This article explores the changing relations between access to land, labour availability, and technological change during the development of agrarian capitalism in Costa Rica, from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. The main features of this period where the unequal but effective access to land on successive settlement frontiers; connected expansion of smallholdings and larger estates; frequent and lasting combination of family and wage-labour; scarcity of labour, partly balanced by migrations and public health measures, decreasing land availability and fragmentation of landholding in previously settled areas; extensive growth of agricultural production, together with socially and spatially differentiated technological changes to revert degradation of intensively exploited areas or to improve production; along with the key role of agroindustrial processing for the control of the main domestic and export commodity chains.

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  • Mario Samper Kutschbach, 2003. "Tierra, trabajo y tecnología en el desarrollo del capitalismo agrario en Costa Rica," Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, issue 29, pages 81-104.
    • Handle: RePEc:seh:journl:y:2003:i:29:p:81-104
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