The agricultural revolution in Brazil: the singularity of the development of capitalism in Brazilian agriculture, 1850-1930

Cláudio Gontijo ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 1988, vol. 8, issue 2, 253-269

Abstract: This paper shows that the universal logic of capitalism can be identified withinthe singularity of agricultural change in Brazil during the initial period of industrialization(1889-1930), through the mediation of a particular pattern of agricultural transformationbased on large estates. The development of agriculture was marked by the process of gradualtransformation of the large estates (lafifundia) into modern capitalist enterprises, in such away that the Brazilian pattern could not be based on small peasant properties. As a result,the development of capitalist relations of production and the productive forces remainedweak and was limited to industry, while the majority of the population could not improveits poor living conditions. JEL Classification: N56; Q10.

Keywords: Economic history of Brazil; agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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