Landownership Distribution, Socio-Economic Precariousness and Empowerment

The Role of Small Peasants in Maresme County (Catalonia, Spain) from 1850 to the 1950s

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2285474
AutoresLluís Parcerisa (0000-0002-6755-1988, Universitat de Barcelona, autor de correspondencia), Lluís Parcerisas (Department of Economic History and Institutions University of Barcelona Edifici Principal, Torre 2 – 4a planta, Av. Diagonal 690‐08034 Barcelona Spain)
Año2015
Volumen15
Número2
Páginas261-285
Fecha de publicación2015-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Agrarian Change (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1471-0358 • E-ISSN: 1471-0366
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/joac.12058
OpenAlexW1667802647
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas55

I present fresh data that show the leading role played by smallholder peasants in land-use intensification, technical improvement and landscape transformation in Maresme County (province of Barcelona, Spain) between 1850 and the 1950s. As a reaction to their precarious situation, caused by an unequal landownership distribution (which is assessed by looking at the minimum-income and maximum workable farm sizes), smallholders drove agrarian changes in this coastal Mediterranean area. The results of their individual efforts, and their collective action through social mobilization and cooperatives, entailed a socio-economic and political improvement, especially in denser populated areas closer to markets, until the arrival of Franco's regime

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Collective action · Distribution (mathematics · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Geography · Political science · Politics · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · French Urban and Social Studies · Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions