Peasants And Poverty

Author : Julio Boltvinik,Susan Archer Mann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783608454

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Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty-First Century by Julio Boltvinik,Susan Archer Mann Pdf

Peasants are a majority of the world's poor. Despite this, there has been little effort to bridge the fields of peasant and poverty studies. Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty-first Century provides a much-needed critical perspective linking three central questions: Why has peasantry, unlike other areas of non-capitalist production, persisted? Why are the vast majority of peasants poor? And how are these two questions related? Interweaving contributions from various disciplines, the book provides a range of responses, offering new theoretical, historical and policy perspectives on this peasant 'world drama'. Scholars from both South and North argue that, in order to find the policy paths required to overcome peasants' misery, we need a seismic transformation in social thought, to which they make important contributions. They are convinced that we must build upon the peasant economy's advantages over agricultural capitalism in meeting the challenges of feeding the growing world population while sustaining the environment. Structured to encourage debate among authors and mutual learning, Peasant Poverty and Persistence takes the reader on an intellectual journey toward understanding the peasantry.

Author : Mats Lundahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317593911

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Peasants and Poverty (Routledge Revivals) by Mats Lundahl Pdf

Haiti is a country which, until the earthquake of 2010, remained largely outside the focus of world interest and outside the important international historical currents during its existence as a free nation. The nineteenth century was the decisive period in Haitian history, serving to shape the class structure, the political tradition and the economic system. During most of this period, Haiti had little contact with both its immediate neighbours and the industrialised nations of the world, which led to the development of Haiti as a peasant nation. This title, first published in 1979, examines the factors responsible for the poverty of the Haitian peasant, by using both traditional economic models as well as a multidisciplinary approach incorporating economics and other branches of social science. The analysis deals primarily with the Haitian peasant economy from the early 1950s to the early 1970s, examining in depth the explanations for the secular tendency of rural per capita incomes to decline during this period.

Author : Mats Lundahl
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Haiti
ISBN : 0312599943

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Peasants and Poverty by Mats Lundahl Pdf

Author : Mats Lundahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317593904

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Peasants and Poverty (Routledge Revivals) by Mats Lundahl Pdf

Haiti is a country which, until the earthquake of 2010, remained largely outside the focus of world interest and outside the important international historical currents during its existence as a free nation. The nineteenth century was the decisive period in Haitian history, serving to shape the class structure, the political tradition and the economic system. During most of this period, Haiti had little contact with both its immediate neighbours and the industrialised nations of the world, which led to the development of Haiti as a peasant nation. This title, first published in 1979, examines the factors responsible for the poverty of the Haitian peasant, by using both traditional economic models as well as a multidisciplinary approach incorporating economics and other branches of social science. The analysis deals primarily with the Haitian peasant economy from the early 1950s to the early 1970s, examining in depth the explanations for the secular tendency of rural per capita incomes to decline during this period.

Author : Rosemary Vargas-Lundius
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000314816

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Peasants In Distress by Rosemary Vargas-Lundius Pdf

A study of economic development in the Dominican Republic, this book argues that rigid economic structures and poor use of labour resources have created conditions that undermine the demand for labour, and maintain perpetual poverty and unemployment. Viewing the problem from a broad perspective, the author analyzes labour and credit markets, offers empirical data on agricultural yields, and examines such socioeconomic issues as the living conditions among the peasantry, the demand for immigrant Haitian labour, and migration from rural to urban areas.

Author : Mats Lundahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138818755

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Peasants and Poverty by Mats Lundahl Pdf

Haiti is a country which, until the earthquake of 2010, remained largely outside the focus of world interest and outside the important international historical currents during its existence as a free nation. The nineteenth century was the decisive period in Haitian history, serving to shape the class structure, the political tradition and the economic system. During most of this period, Haiti had little contact with both its immediate neighbours and the industrialised nations of the world, which led to the development of Haiti as a peasant nation. This title, first published in 1979, examines the factors responsible for the poverty of the Haitian peasant, by using both traditional economic models as well as a multidisciplinary approach incorporating economics and other branches of social science. The analysis deals primarily with the Haitian peasant economy from the early 1950s to the early 1970s, examining in depth the explanations for the secular tendency of rural per capita incomes to decline during this period.

Author : Mats Lundahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0312599943

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Peasants and Poverty (Routledge Revivals). by Mats Lundahl Pdf

Author : R.F. Watters
Publisher : Springer
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349123193

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Poverty and Peasantry in Peru’s Southern Andes, 1963–90 by R.F. Watters Pdf

This study views the peasantry in the context of the historical experience of conquest and domination. Since the 1950s the community of Chilca has become more mobilized and confident, and increasingly affected by capitalism, urbanization, the Peruvian Revolution and agrarian reform.

Author : Allen F. Isaacman
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0435089781

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Cotton is the Mother of Poverty by Allen F. Isaacman Pdf

This book explores the lives of Mozambique's cotton producers-their pain and suffering, their coping strategies, their struggles to survive.

Author : Zhun Xu
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583676981

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From Commune to Capitalism by Zhun Xu Pdf

Socialism and capitalism in the Chinese countryside -- Chinese agrarian change in world-historical context -- Agricultural productivity and decollectivization -- The political economy of decollectivization -- The achievement, contradictions, and demise of rural collectives

Author : Esther Kingston-Mann,Timothy Mixter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400861248

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Peasant Economy, Culture, and Politics of European Russia, 1800-1921 by Esther Kingston-Mann,Timothy Mixter Pdf

This collection of original essays provides a rare in-depth look at peasant life in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European Russia. It is the first English-language text to deal extensively with peasant women and patriarchy; the role of magic, healing, and medicine in village life; communal economic innovation; rural poverty and labor migration from the village perspective; the agricultural hiring market as workers' turf; and the regional components of the late nineteenth-century agrarian crisis. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi,Cristóbal Kay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134064649

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Peasants and Globalization by A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi,Cristóbal Kay Pdf

In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the world’s population lived in cities. However, on a global scale, poverty overwhelmingly retains a rural face. This book assembles an unparalleled group of internationally-eminent scholars in the field of rural development and social change in order to explore historical and contemporary processes of agrarian change and transformation and their consequent impact upon the livelihoods, poverty and well-being of those who live in the countryside. The book provides a critical analysis of the extent to which rural development trajectories have in the past and are now promoting a change in rural production processes, the accumulation of rural resources, and shifts in rural politics, and the implications of such trajectories for peasant livelihoods and rural workers in an era of globalization. Peasants and Globalization thus explores continuity and change in the debate on the ‘agrarian question’, from its early formulation in the late 19th century to the continuing relevance it has in our times, including chapters from Terence Byres, Amiya Bagchi, Ellen Wood, Farshad Araghi, Henry Bernstein, Saturnino M Borras, Ray Kiely, Michael Watts and Philip McMichael. Collectively, the contributors argue that neoliberal social and economic policies have, in deepening the market imperative governing the contemporary world food system, not only failed to tackle to underlying causes of rural poverty but have indeed deepened the agrarian crisis currently confronting the livelihoods of peasant farmers and rural workers. This crisis does not go unchallenged, as rural social movements have emerged, for the first time, on a transnational scale. Confronting development policies that are unable to reduce, let alone eliminate, rural poverty, transnational rural social movements are attempting to construct a more just future for the world’s farmers and rural workers.

Author : Max Spoor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134045327

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The Political Economy of Rural Livelihoods in Transition Economies by Max Spoor Pdf

Rural poverty is a phenomenon that is widespread yet often ignored by policy makers and researchers. This edited volume looks critically at rural poverty in Central Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, China and Vietnam in relation to land reform, farm restructuring and the development of rural markets and in the context of a large gap between rural and urban incomes and deteriorating rural social services and infrastructure. Although in most countries rural poverty has been decreasing in the past few years, economic growth in rural areas is slow, and rural incomes are not ‘catching up’ with the rapid overall growth rates of these transition economies. In general, the livelihoods of rural dwellers remain relatively poor. Next to comparative studies, the chapters in this book explore various aspects of agrarian reform, and analyze the interlocking or interlinking (land, input and output) markets that are crucial for rural development that have often remained weakly developed in transition economies, including case studies from Russia, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Vietnam and China and a wealth of detailed analysis. These chapters reflect the striking differences between transition countries in their processes of rural reform and development of rural poverty. These differences are generally dependent on the initial conditions at the eve of transition, the policies implemented, the sequencing of reforms, and the importance that was given to the sector in the overall development strategy, such as can be seen if the Asian transition economies (ATEs) are compared with many of those in Eastern Europe.

Author : Olʹga Petrovna Semenova-Ti︠a︡n-Shanskai︠a︡
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Russia
ISBN : 0253347971

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Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia by Olʹga Petrovna Semenova-Ti︠a︡n-Shanskai︠a︡ Pdf

Ò . . . a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution. . . . The translation is superb.Ó ÑSteven Hoch Ò . . . one of the best ethnographic portraits that we have of the Russian village. . . . a highly readable text that is an excellent introduction to the world of the Russian peasantry.Ó ÑSamuel C. Ramer Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia provides a unique firsthand portrait of peasant family life as recorded by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, an ethnographer and painter who spent four years at the turn of the twentieth century observing the life and customs of villagers in a central Russian province. Unusual in its awareness of the rapid changes in the Russian village in the late nineteenth century and in its concentration on the treatment of women and children, SemyonovaÕs ethnography vividly describes courting rituals, marriage and sexual practices, childbirth, infanticide, child-rearing practices, the lives of women, food and drink, work habits, and the household economy. In contrast to a tradition of rosy, romanticized descriptions of peasant communities by Russian upper-class observers, Semyonova gives an unvarnished account of the harsh living conditions and often brutal relationships within peasant families.

Author : Judith Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015042004526

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A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, C. 1295-1344 by Judith Bennett Pdf

This history of medieval village life is told through the experiences of Cecilia Penifader, a peasant woman who lived on one English manor in the early fourteenth century. This truly unique book offers a wealth of insight into medieval peasant society, bringing many of the characteristics of a time and a people to life. Short and readable, it is an ideal text for undergraduate teaching, suitable for courses in Western civilization, medieval history, women's history, and English history.