Abstract
During the 1960s, while agriculture became increasingly polarised between the state farm and the individual private farm, little official interest was shown in establishing a middle ground. The revolutionary takeover had prompted several thousand peasant farmers to collectivise on their own initiative. But without official encouragement or special support their number had steadily dwindled, so that by the time production cooperatives received official blessing as a ‘socialist form of agriculture’ in the mid-1970s, only forty-three remained.
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Ghai, D., Kay, C., Peek, P. (1988). The Non-state Sector. In: Labour and Development in Rural Cuba. The Macmillan Series of ILO Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09718-0_5
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