Cuban sugar in the age of mass production : technology and the economics of the sugar central, 1899-1929 /

Cuban sugar in the age of mass production : technology and the economics of the sugar central, 1899-1929 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dye, Alan, 1958-
Imprint:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.
Description:	xiii, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Sugar trade -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century. Sugar trade -- Cuba -- Technological innovations -- History -- 20th century. Sugar factories -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century. Sugar factories. Sugar trade. Sugar trade -- Technological innovations. Cuba. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3561595

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ISBN:	0804728194 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-331) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. A Long-Term View of the Sugar Economy in Cuba
3. Mass Production and the Sugar Industry
4. Coordination and Scale Economies
5. Central Mill Expansion and Costs of Adjustment
6. Holdup and Regional Diversity
7. Impediments to Expansion: A Fixed-Effects Analysis
8. The Choice of Technique and the Modernization of Sugar
9. Conclusion.