ACLS Humanities E-Book: Work and control in a peasant economy: a history of the lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi, 1859-1960

Work and control in a peasant economy: a history of the lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi, 1859-1960

Mandala, Elias Coutinho.

Year: c1990.

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Illustrations

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: The Labor Process in African Agrarian History

Part 1: Transformations in Productive Forces

1. Major Tensions in the Political Economy of the Lower Tchiri Valley, 1859-1863

2. From the Slave Trade to the Rise of a Peasantry, 1859-1925

Part 2: The Problem of Labor Control

3. Resistance to Capitalist Colonial Labor Regimes, 1875-1923

4. The Ultimate Compromise: Peasant Cotton Agriculture, 1907-1939

Part 3: The Limits and Contradictions of Rural Struggle

5. Structural and Conjunctural Strains in Food Production and Supply, 1907-1960

6. Reactive Colonial Attempts to Restructure a Distorted Economy, 1930-1960

7. Constrained Peasant Initiatives and Agrarian Change, 1930-1960

Conclusions: A Simple but Diverse Peasant World: The Lower Tchiri Valley Revisited

Notes

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

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Title:

Work and control in a peasant economy : a history of the lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi, 1859-1960 Elias C. Mandala.

Author:

Mandala, Elias Coutinho

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Work and control in a peasant economy : a history of the lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi, 1859-1960 Elias C. Mandala.
Mandala, Elias Coutinho
Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, c1990.

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Subject Headings:

• Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Malawi
• Peasantry -- Malawi
• Shire River Valley (Malawi and Mozambique) -- Economic conditions

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