Cotton Is the Mother of Poverty
Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3910641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen Sheldon (0000-0001-9740-0999), Allen Isaacman |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 229 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/221600 |
| OpenAlex | W2174098796 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 61 |
Introduction: The setting - the antecedents and formation of the Mozambican cotton regime 180-1938. Part One Cotton and rural labour 1938-51: cotton, colonialism and work variations in the cotton regimes peasants at work - gardening and ginning. Part Two The era of reform 1951-61: reforming the system - rationalizing the labour process. Part Three Long-term consequences 1938-61: cotton and food insecurity cotton and rural differentiation coping with the demands of cotton cotton, the labour process and rural protest
Colonialism · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Political science · Poverty · Rural poverty · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Work (physics · African history and culture studies · Engineering · Law
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| Unique citing works | 61 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,03 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2022 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 60 |