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Producción en masa del azúcar cubano, 1899–1929: Economías de escala y elección de técnicas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2010

Alan Dye
Alan Dye
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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Abstract

Technological changes gave Cuba one of the most technically advanced cane sugar industries in the world in the first part of this century. In this paper, we show quantitatively that production techniques in sugar manufacturing, as in many other processing industries, underwent enormous increases in their optimal scales due to the adoption of continuous-processing technologies and mass production. These same continuous-processing technologies were those which heralded the managerial revolution à la Chandler. In Cuba, the large turn-of-the-century sugar enterprise, to take a global perspective, was not the latifundio of antiquity; it was an element of the large industrial enterprise of the twentieth century, and it was a mark of global participation and industrial leadership in the newly transformed techniques of sugar manufacture.

Resumen

Ciertos cambios tecnológicos dotaron a Cuba de una de las industrias azucareras más avanzadas del mundo en la primera mitad del presente siglo. En este trabajo mostramos cuantitativamente que las técnicas de producción en la fabricación de azúcar, como en muchas otras industrias de elaboración, experimentaron enormes incrementos en sus escalas óptimas debido a la adopción de tecnologías de proceso continuo y de producción en masa. En Estados Unidos estas mismas tecnologías de proceso continuo fueron las que anunciaron la revolución en la gestión administrativa al estilo Chandler. En Cuba, la gran fábrica azucarera de comienzo de siglo, para adoptar una perspectiva global, no era el latifundio de antaño; era un elemento de la gran empresa industrial del siglo XX, e indicaba participación global y liderazgo industrial en las técnicas recientemente transformadas de fabricación del azúcar.

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Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , December 1993 , pp. 563 - 593
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Copyright © Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 1993

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