Agriculture work and industrial pattern in Mexico and Chile: from cardenism and the Popular Front to the 1960s

Abstract

This work reviews the existing relationship between the industrial capital reproduction standard and the basic food production in Mexico and Chile, from the end of the 1930s to mid-1960s. It analysis the similarities and differences of the effects of political and economic policies on rurallabor exploitation, as well as their relationship with agrarian structures and domestic standards. It argues that labor in the rural areas of both countries is overexploited (industrial exploitation) and determined by domestic standards. In such structural context, there is a tendency to intensify exploitation.