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Cotton Is the Mother of Poverty

Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961

Bibliographic Data

ID3910641
AuthorsKathleen Sheldon (0000-0001-9740-0999), Allen Isaacman
Year1997
Volume30
Issue1
Pages229
Publication date1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/221600
OpenAlexW2174098796
LanguageEN
Citations received61

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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