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Cañeros and Colonos: Cane Planters in Tucumán, 1876–1895

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2006

PATRICIA JUAREZ-DAPPE
PATRICIA JUAREZ-DAPPE
Affiliation:
California State University, Northridge.
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Abstract

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century Tucumán's sugar industry experienced unprecedented growth. Tucumán's mills relied on their lands as well as on outside growers for the supply of the cane. By 1895 cañeros and colonos were cultivating two-thirds of the cane processed in the province. This practice resulted in the incorporation of thousands of small and medium farmers into sugar production, a rather exceptional case among Latin American sugar economies. This article sheds light on this peculiar aspect of Tucumán's sugar industry by focusing on the diversity that characterised the group of cane planters, the circumstances under which they were incorporated into cane agriculture, the tensions that materialised in sugar-growing areas, and the strategies developed by planters to settle their conflicts with mill owners.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 123 - 147
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The research on which this article is based was made possible by grants from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at California State University, Northridge. I would like to thank Ted Beatty, Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, Sofia Martos and the anonymous referees of the Journal of Latin American Studies for their insightful comments on earlier versions of the article.