Changing Technology and Employment in Agriculture
Author : United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN :
Author : United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN :
Author : National Research Project on Reemployment Opportunities and Recent Changes in Industrial Techniques (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN :
Author : Sarah Little Yarnall
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN :
Author : Peter D. Little
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780299140649
Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. Living Under Contract, however, highlights the dynamic, changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming. A relatively new and increasingly widespread way of organizing peasant agriculture, contract farming promotes production of a wide variety of crops--from flowers to cocoa, from fresh vegetables to rice--under contract to agribusinesses, exporters, and processers. The proliferation of African growers producing under contract is in fact part of broader changes in the global agro-food system. In this examination of agricultural restructuring and its effect upon various African societies, editors Peter Little and Michael Watts bring together anthropologists, economists, geographers, political scientists, and sociologists to explore the origins, forms, and consequences of contract production in several African countries, particularly Kenya, the Gambia, Zimbabwe, and the Ivory Coast. Documenting how contract production links farmers, agribusiness, and the state, the contributors examine problematic aspects of this method of agrarian reform. Their case studies, based on long-term field work and analysis on the village and household level, chart the complex effects of contract production on the organization of work and the labor process, rural inequality, gender relations, labor markets, local accumulation strategies, and regional development. Living Under Contract reveals that contract farming represents a distinctive form in which African growers are incorporated into national and world markets. Contract production, which has been a central feature of the agricultural landscape in the advanced capitalist states, is an emerging strategy for "capturing peasants" and for confronting the agrarian question in the late twentieth century.
Author : United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 1973-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 1942
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN :
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher :
Page : 2636 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Set includes revised editions of some issues.
Author : Harry Hays Harp
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Agricultural estimating and reporting
ISBN :