The author clarifies the mutually constructive relationship between transnational and the modernizing Peruvian state, showing how the state maintains this relationship while simultaneously nurturing the new class.
The book analyzes interrelations between political power, the new middle class, the role of multinational enterprises, the mining industry and the limits to dependence in Peru since 1968 - examines industrial policy, state intervention and the world market for nonferrous metals; studies institutional framework incl. Parapublic enterprise, the role of middle class managers and entrepreneurs in capitalist industrialization; examines miners' militancy, strikes, wages, trade union power, etc., reviews investment return, employment, etc.
Originally published in 1983.
Author(s): David G. Becker
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 1983
Language: English
Pages: 458
City: Princeton
Tags: Peru; Historia del Perú; Peruvian History; Andes; Andean History; Historia andina; Juan Velasco Alvarado
Cover
Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Glossary of Acronyms
Foreword
Preface
1. Development, Class, and Dependency
2. Peru: Un Paￃﾭs Minero
3. Mining Policy and Policymaking after 1968
4. World Industries and World Markets in Nonferrous Metals
Part II: Mining Transnationals and the Peruvian State
5. Southern Peru Copper versus an Assertive State: The Cuajone Project
6. The Decline and Fall of Cerro de Pasco
Part III: Institutional Foundations of the Peruvian Mining Bourgeoisie
7. The Medium-Mining Subsector
8. Parastatal Enterprise in Peruvian Mining
Part IV: Mining and Development: A Class Analysis
9. The Bourgeoisie and Middle Class of the Minerￃﾭa
10. The Mining Industry and the Claims of Labor
11. The New Bourgeoisie and the Limits of Dependency
Appendix A. Miscellaneous Data
Appendix B. Mining Policy Guidelines and Legislation of the Military Regime
Appendix C. A Comparison of Key Provisions of the Toquepala and Cuajone Basic Agreements
Appendix D. Statutory Rights and Privileges of Peruvian Mine Workers
Bibliography
Index
