Cotton is the mother of poverty : peasants, work, and rural struggle in colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961
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Cotton is the mother of poverty : peasants, work, and rural struggle in colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961
（Social history of Africa）
Heinemann , David Philip , James Currey, c1996
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: Heine : pbk ISBN 9780435089788
Description
Portuguese officials forced nearly a million African peasants to grow cotton in colonial Mozambique under a regime of coercion, brutality, and terror. The colonial state sought to control almost every aspect of peasant life: growers were told not only what they should produce, but where they should live, how they should organize their labor, and with whom they should trade. A privileged few managed to prosper under the cotton regime, but the great majority were impoverished, as cotton cultivation earned them next to nothing and exposed them to hardship and famine.
Despite their efforts at control, the colonial state could only partially subordinate the rural population. This book explores the lives of Mozambique's cotton producers--their pain and suffering, their coping strategies, and their struggles to survive. Because the study is concerned above all else with the lived experiences of cotton growers, their stories figure prominently; the documentation for this book includes more than 160 interviews- with former cotton growers and their families, but also with African police and overseers, and with Portuguese settlers, merchants, missionaries, and officials. The producers' own stories, while acknowledging their bleak situation, provide evidence of agency, proactive struggle, and creative adaptation under difficult circumstances.
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: Currey : pbk ISBN 9780852556214
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This study of the colonial Portuguese regime's economic policy in Mozambique shows how nearly a million African peasants were forced to grow cotton. It explores the lives of these cotton producers, through interviews with former cotton growers and their families, as well as African policemen and overseers, and Portuguese settlers, merchants, missionaries and officials.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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: Currey : cloth ISBN 9780852556719
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This study of the colonial Portuguese regime's economic policy in Mozambique shows how nearly a million African peasants were forced to grow cotton. It explores the lives of these cotton producers, through interviews with former cotton growers and their families, as well as African policemen and overseers, and Portuguese settlers, merchants, missionaries and officials.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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