Publication: Producción en masa del azúcar cubano, 1899-1929: Economías de escala y elección de técnicas
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1993
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Centro de Estudios Constitucionales (España)
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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.
Technological changes gave Cuba one of the most technically advanced cañe sugar industries in the worid in the first part of this century. In this paper, we show quantitatívely 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 á la Chandler. In Cuba, the large tum-of-the-centuiy sugar enterpríse, to take a global pers- Pective, was not the latifundio of antiquity; it was an element of the large industrial encrprise of the twentieth century, and it was a mark of global participation and industrial leadership in the newly transformed techniques of sugar manufacture.
Technological changes gave Cuba one of the most technically advanced cañe sugar industries in the worid in the first part of this century. In this paper, we show quantitatívely 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 á la Chandler. In Cuba, the large tum-of-the-centuiy sugar enterpríse, to take a global pers- Pective, was not the latifundio of antiquity; it was an element of the large industrial encrprise of the twentieth century, and it was a mark of global participation and industrial leadership in the newly transformed techniques of sugar manufacture.
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Revista de Historia Económica Año XI Otoño 1993 n. 3 pp. 563--594