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Although just over half the population lived in urban centres by 1959, Cuba before the revolution was an eminently agrarian country.
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Ghai, D., Kay, C., Peek, P. (1988). The First Decade. In: Labour and Development in Rural Cuba. The Macmillan Series of ILO Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09718-0_2
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