Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of maps
- Preface
- 1 Regional development in an export economy
- 2 The development of a regional economy in the central highlands
- 3 The Mining Corporation and regional development
- 4 Class relations, local economies and large-scale mining
- 5 Highland puna communities and the impact of the mining economy
- 6 Migration and social differentiation amongst Mantaro valley peasants
- 7 Industrialization and the emergence of an informal regional economy
- 8 The village economy, agricultural development and contemporary patterns of social differentiation
- 9 Regional commitment among central highlands migrants in Lima
- 10 Confederations of households: extended domestic enterprises in city and country
- 11 Regional development in peripheral economies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Titles in the series
1 - Regional development in an export economy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of maps
- Preface
- 1 Regional development in an export economy
- 2 The development of a regional economy in the central highlands
- 3 The Mining Corporation and regional development
- 4 Class relations, local economies and large-scale mining
- 5 Highland puna communities and the impact of the mining economy
- 6 Migration and social differentiation amongst Mantaro valley peasants
- 7 Industrialization and the emergence of an informal regional economy
- 8 The village economy, agricultural development and contemporary patterns of social differentiation
- 9 Regional commitment among central highlands migrants in Lima
- 10 Confederations of households: extended domestic enterprises in city and country
- 11 Regional development in peripheral economies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Titles in the series
Summary
Introduction
This book explores a controversial issue in the analysis of development – whether integration into the international capitalist economy entails relative stagnation for underdeveloped economies or the possibility of sustained economic growth and diversification. We focus upon one provincial region of Peru – the central highlands – whose economic and social structure has been shaped by involvement in the international economy from the latter half of the sixteenth century and which, in recent years, has become peripheral to the more dynamic growth pole of Lima.
Our conclusion is that significant growth and diversification has taken place in the region and that this is directly attributable to capitalist expansion. Throughout our analysis we emphasize the social and political dimensions of this process since the local dynamic of capitalism has involved important changes in class relationships consequent upon the emergence of a wage labour force and new entrepreneurial groupings
This conclusion is particularly significant since the economy of the central highlands has been closely linked in this century to the fortunes of large-scale, foreign-owned mining enterprise. At first sight, the mining complex had the characteristics of an economic enclave with few dynamic linkages with the area's economy. This is precisely the situation that is supposed to prevent economic growth at the periphery. However, we will seek to show that such an interpretation fails to take account of the significant but small-scale processes of accumulation resulting from the exchanges between the enclave and a peasant population which, for centuries, had been involved in labour and commodity markets.
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- Miners, Peasants and EntrepreneursRegional Development in the Central Highlands of Peru, pp. 1 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1984