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Rural development : theories of peasant economy and agrarian change

Title
Rural development : theories of peasant economy and agrarian change / edited by John Harriss.
Publication
London : Hutchinson University Library, 1982.

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Additional Authors
Harriss, John
Description
409 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
Textbook (essays) on economic theories (agricultural economy) relating to agrarian reform and rural development in developing countries - discusses relations between agrarian change, population growth and poverty, considers farm size, land tenure and colonialism, and includes case studies concerning capitalists in Colombia, agricultural production conditions in India, rural employment in Java (Indonesia), regional level labour markets for sugar cane plantation workers in Peru, social class phenomena in Tanzania, etc. Bibliographys.
Series Statement
  • Hutchinson university library for Africa
  • Hutchinson university library
Uniform Title
  • Hutchinson university library for Africa.
  • Hutchinson university library.
Subject
  • Rural development
  • Peasants > Developing countries
  • rural development
  • Economic history
  • Peasants
  • Rural development
  • Ländliche Entwicklung
  • Plattelandsontwikkeling
  • economic theory
  • agricultural economy
  • agrarian reform
  • population growth
  • poverty
  • farm size
  • land tenure
  • colonialism
  • case study
  • capitalist
  • agricultural production
  • rural employment
  • regional level
  • labour market
  • sugar cane
  • plantation worker
  • social class
  • Países em desenvolvimento (condições econômicas)
  • Desenvolvimento rural
  • Campesinato
  • théorie économique
  • économie agricole
  • réforme agraire
  • développement rural
  • croissance démographique
  • pauvreté
  • dimension de la ferme
  • régime foncier
  • colonialisme
  • étude de cas
  • capitaliste
  • production agricole
  • emploi rural
  • niveau régional
  • marché du travail
  • canne à sucre
  • travailleur des plantations
  • classe sociale
  • teoría económica
  • economía agrícola
  • reforma agraria
  • desarrollo rural
  • crecimiento demográfico
  • pobreza
  • tamaño de la explotación
  • tenencia de la tierra
  • colonialismo
  • estudio de casos
  • capitalista
  • producción agrícola
  • empleo rural
  • nivel regional
  • mercado de trabajo
  • caña de azúcar
  • trabajador de las plantaciones
  • clase social
  • Developing countries > Economic conditions
  • Developing countries
  • Entwicklungsländer
  • developing countries
  • Colombia
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Peru
  • Tanzania
  • pays en développement
  • Colombie
  • Inde
  • Indonésie
  • Pérou
  • Tanzanie
  • países en desarrollo
  • Perú
  • Tanzanía
Genre/Form
  • textbook.
  • bibliography.
  • manuel d'enseignement.
  • bibliographie.
  • libro de texto.
  • bibliografía.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Peasant economics and the development of capitalist agriculture in the Cauca Valley, Colombia / M. Taussing -- Production conditions in Indian agriculture / Krishna Bharadwaj -- Population, involution and employment in rural Java / Benjamin White -- Peasants, proletariarization and the articulation of modes of production : the case of sugar cane cutters in northern Peru, 1940-69 / C.D. Scott -- The state and peasantry in Tanzania / Philip Raikes.
ISBN
  • 0091447909
  • 9780091447908
  • 0091447917
  • 9780091447915
LCCN
82181906
OCLC
  • ocm09124131
  • 9124131
  • SCSB-74722
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library