Raising Cane The Political Economy Of Sugar In Western India
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- Oxford Routledge 20210531
- 366 p
In Maharashtra state, nearly one hundred sugar factories are owned and operated by peasants. Large in scale and efficient in operation, these factories are organized as cooperatives, with half a million cane growers as their voting members. In many cases, the co-ops have out-competed factories owned by industrial capitalists. This book describes th