Excerpt from The Cotton Industry in Peru Cotton accounts for about one-fourth of the value of all Peruvian exports and one half of its agricultural exports. It is an important source of foreign exchange, supplies raw materials for Peru's cotton textile industry, yields cottonseed oil and cake, and pro vides jobs for many thousands of individuals. Cotton is native to Peru and has existed there as a cultivated plant for thousands of years. Francisco Pizarro found it widely used in 1952 and cotton cloth has been dis covered in ancient Peruvian tombs. The early Spaniards, interested primarily in pre cions metals, paid little or no attention to this plant grown by the native Indians. Commercial cotton production, as it is now known, did not get underway until the early 1860's, when the shortage of European cotton resulting from the American Civil War caused English cotton and textile leaders to join local interests in the active promo tion of cotton production in Peru. This promotion included the introduction of seed of cotton varieties popular in the United States and Egypt and favored in the mill areas of Great Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

An account of the way social relations governing the production of cotton in Peru's South Coast changed as capitalism penetrated Peru's agrarian base; the analysis is unusual in that the author looks at the plantation system from a "peasant" poi

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This is a sociological analysis of change and mobility in the labor force of thirteen of the largest textile factories in Peru. The book explores demographic and social variables such as age, sex, birthplace, migration, seniority, current and former occupations, and employment status as possible indices of rationality in the Peruvian labor market. There are two especially striking empirical findings: the Peruvian textile industry has not been plagued by the high levels of labor turnover generally assumed to be inevitable in underdeveloped countries; since 1955 women are being shut out of better-paying manufacturing jobs because of welfare laws that make them more expensive to employ than men. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.