Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations and Conventions
• Introduction: Modern Peru, Plantation Agriculture, and Social Control
• Part I. The Development of the Sugar Industry
  • 1. The Physical and Historical Setting
  • 2. Planters and Capital, 1860–1933
  • 3. Land and Technology, 1860–1933
• Part II. The Organization, Recruitment, and Control of Labor
  • 4. The Organization of Labor at Cayaltí
  • 5. The Chinese Worker, 1875–1900
  • 6. Culture and Social Control, 1865–1905
  • 7. Labor Contracting, 1880–1933
  • 8. The Plantation Community, 1890–1933
  • 9. Confrontation
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Index

About the Author

Michael J. Gonzales is Presidential Research Professor Emeritus of History at Northern Illinois University.