Population Expansion and the Plantation System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2199490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edgar T Thompson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1935 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 314-326 |
| Publication date | 1935-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/217104 |
| OpenAlex | W1998745178 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
The plantation is a political organization of the frontier existing for the purpose of securing co-operative and unified action among peoples of diverse races or cultures in the production of an agricultural staple which usually is sold on a world-market. The history of the plantation begins with the migrant stranger who becomes a planter where there are undeveloped agricultural resources, where there is or can be created a market and in which a profit will be realized, where the stranger can acquire possession or control of the land at points favorable to transportation. The typical plantation society passes through different stages of which the succession forms a cycle. Alienation of the land and settlement by a new population are primary stages. The importation of plantation labor is usually "collective" migration. The laborers are predominantly male or familyless. In the second generation the sexes are fairly equalized and there is a moving away from the individual to the family as the labor unit. The new source of labor supply is provided by the children who are born within the community. The plantation family group tends to acquire some equity in the land which it works and the crops which it produces. A system of peasant proprietorship tends to replace the plantation system. The change is marked by the passing of the plantation village and the dispersion of families out upon the land, by the rise of trade towns, multiplication of local division of labor, greater diversification of agriculture, and the tendency to develop co-operative societies. This is the final stage of the plantation cycle
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Business · Diversification (marketing strategy) · Economics · Geography · Land tenure · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Population · Possession (linguistics) · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1946 - 2005 (60) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |