Labour, land and capital in Ghana : from slavery to free labour in Asante, 1807-1956
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Labour, land and capital in Ghana : from slavery to free labour in Asante, 1807-1956
（Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora）
University of Rochester Press, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 547-573) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a study of the changing rules and relationships within which natural, human and man-made resources were mobilized for production during the development of an agricultural export economy in Asante, a major West African kingdom which became, by 1945, the biggest regional contributor to Ghana's status as the world's largest cocoa producer. The period 1807-1956 as a whole was distinguished in Asante history by relatively favorable political conditionsfor indigenous as well as [during colonial rule] for foreign private enterprise. It saw generally increasing external demands for products that could be produced on Asante land. This book, which fills a major gap in Asante economic history, transcends the traditional divide between studies of precolonial and of twentieth-century African history. It analyses the interaction of coercion and the market in the context of a rich but fragile natural environment,the central process being a transition from slavery and debt-bondage to hired labor and agricultural indebtedness. It contributes to the broad debate about Africa's historic combination of emerging 'capitalist' institutions and persistent "precapitalist" ones, and tests the major theories of the political economy of institutional change. It is written accessibly for an interdisciplinary readership.
Gareth Austin is a Lecturer in Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Joint Editor of the Journal of African History.
Table of Contents
Theories and Debates: Some Tools for Thinking about the History of Property and Markets in Asante and Beyond
Asante, 1807-1956: the State, Output and Resources
The Changing Relationship Between Inputs and Outputs, 1807-1956
Land Tenure, 1807-1896
The Mobilization of Labour, 1807-1896
Capital and Credit, 1807-1896
Factor Markets without Free Labour: The Nieboer Hypothesis and Asante Slavery and Pawnship, 1807-1896
Gender and Kinship Aspects of the Social Relations of Production, 1807-1896
Exploitation and Welfare: Class and 'Social Efficiency' Implications of the Property Rights Regime, 1807-1896
Why Was Prohibition So Long Delayed? The Nature and Motives of the Gradualism of the British 'Men on the Spot'
The Decline of Coerced Labour and Property in Persons in Practice: Change from Above and from Below in Colonial Asante, 1896-1950
Cocoa and the Ending of Labour Coercion, c. 1900-c. 1950
Land Tenure: What Kind of Transformation under Cash-Cropping and Colonial Rule?
Capital and Credit: Locking Farms to Credit
Free Labour: Family Workers, the Spread of Wage Contracts, and the Rise of Sharecropping
Land in a Tree-Farm Economy
Capital in a Tree-Farm Economy
Free Labour: Why the Newly Emerged Wage Regular Wage Contracts Were Eclipsed by Sharecropping
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