Peasant Cooperation and Agricultural Growth in Historical Perspective

Southeastern Shanxi in the 1950s

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ID6008024
AutoresCatherine Yuan Gao (0000-0001-9290-4397, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, autor correspondente), Yuan Gao (0000-0001-8565-1790)
Ano2019
Volume45
Fascículo5
Páginas537-563
Data de publicação2019-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoModern China (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0097700418812105
OpenAlexW2901053371
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas19

Historical evidence suggests that peasant cooperation in the form of mutual aid teams and co-ops contributed to agricultural growth in southeastern Shanxi before 1958. Well-managed mutual aid teams and co-ops could improve the efficiency of input allocation, help to increase the use of traditional inputs, and accelerate the diffusion of output-enhancing technologies. The case of the Guo Yu’en co-op in Chuandi village illustrates how institutions providing sufficient work incentives could emerge in rural communities. By linking the southeastern Shanxi story to national trends of agrarian change in the 1950s, this article emphasizes that cooperativization before the Great Leap Forward generated heterogeneous effects across different regions and cannot be indiscriminately labeled as inefficient

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · Incentive · Market economy · Mutual aid · Peasant · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Work (physics · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Cooperative Studies and Economics · Engineering · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law

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