Un siglo sin innovación en la saca del corcho

José Ignacio Jiménez Blanco
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José Ignacio Jiménez Blanco: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, 2013, issue 61, 79-114

Abstract: This article seeks to explain why a productive activity such as cork stripping experienced no technical change for two centuries, while Western economies were undergoing all sorts of deep transformations due to two industrial revolutions. For this purpose we have first reconstructed how cork stripping was carried out at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Next, leading microeconomic indicators such as production, productivity, wages and profitability are calculated and analysed for the exploitation of a specific cork oak forest. The conclusion offered is that the price of cork was always higher than per unit costs of production in such a specialised labour intensive operation, which can be explained by the unique structure of the world cork market.

Keywords: Cork; Cork Stripping; Cork Oak Forests; Forest Operations; Andalusia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N53 N54 O13 Q23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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