/ The workforce in the modernization process of the dominican sugar industry. Case of San Pedro de Macorís

The workforce in the modernization process of the dominican sugar industry. Case of San Pedro de Macorís

Authors


  • Héctor Luis Martínez

    Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), Dominican Republic

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51274/ecos.v2i3.pp111-125

How to Cite

Martínez, Héctor Luis. 1994. “The Workforce in the Modernization Process of the Dominican Sugar Industry. Case of San Pedro De Macorís”. Journal ECOSUASD 2 (3):111-25. https://doi.org/10.51274/ecos.v2i3.pp111-125.

Published

1994-03-25

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Section

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Abstract

The national sugar industry, both in its founding phase and in its consolidation phase, was affected by the serious inconvenience of the instability of the workforce available for cutting in the cane fields. This instability was explained due to the seasonal nature of the productive process of the sugar mills and to the fact that the idea of "proletarianization" slowly caught on in the mentality of the peasant, still attached to the cultivation of his properties. Thus, despite the fact that the predominance of local braceros in the mills is not disputed during the initial period of the modernization of the Dominican sugar industry, it was necessary to resort to the importation of foreign labor force.


Keywords:

work, modernity, sugar, Dominican Republic

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