Agrarian development, family farms and sugar capital in Colonial Taiwan, 1895–1945
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11927232 |
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| Authors | Chih‐ming Ka (Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 206-240 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066159108438450 |
| OpenAlex | W2086914758 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article analyses the conservation and restructuring of Taiwanese family farms in the course of capitalist and colonial incorporation. With insufficient participation of Japanese private capital at the outset of colonial rule, a congruence of interest between indigenous peasant producers and the colonial state resulted in policies that fostered the survival of family farms. These family farms constituted a formidable obstacle to the expansion of a labour‐hiring capitalist agriculture. Under such conditions, Japanese capital pursued vertical concentration resting on a highly productive family farming agriculture. Through contractual arrangements within exclusive territories awarded by the government, Japanese sugar corporations obtained supplies of sugarcane at favorable prices from family farms. While peasant households retained command of their labour power and contested the terms of exchange, Japanese sugar capital controlled the commanding heights of the lucrative sugar industry and determined the conditions of cane production
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Biology · Business · Capital (architecture · Capital accumulation · Colonialism · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Human capital · Indigenous · Market economy · Peasant · Political science · Restructuring · Subsidy · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |