This collection of fourteen essays presents a unique comparative analysis of agrarian change in the main rice-growing regions of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Its central theme is the interplay between agrarian relations and wider political-economic systems. By drawing on historical materials as well as intensive field research, the contributors show how local-level mechanisms of labor control and accumulation both reflect and alter larger political and economic forces. The key to understanding these ...
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This collection of fourteen essays presents a unique comparative analysis of agrarian change in the main rice-growing regions of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Its central theme is the interplay between agrarian relations and wider political-economic systems. By drawing on historical materials as well as intensive field research, the contributors show how local-level mechanisms of labor control and accumulation both reflect and alter larger political and economic forces. The key to understanding these connections lies in the structure and exercise of power at different levels of society. The approach developed in this volume grows out of a set of detailed local-level studies in regions that have experienced rapid technological change and commercialization. This comparative focus calls into question widely held views of technology and the growth of markets as the chief sources of agrarian change. By relating local-level processes to variations in the structure of state power, the history of agrarian resistance, and the particular forms of capitalist development, the authors suggest an alternative approach to the analysis of agrarian change.
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Bookplate, pencil underlining to pp 53-67, otherwise very good-in slightly worn dustwrapper in very good jacket. 341pp, text figures and charts, octavo cloth.
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Textual maps & tables. Corner bumped. Some light cover spotting & soil. Good. 23x15cm, xv, 341 pp. Contains 14 papers. Includes: B. White "Problems in the Empirical Analysis of Agrarian Differentiation"; G. Hart "Agrarian Change in the Context of State Patronage"; A. Turton "Thailand: Agrarian Bases of State Power"; A. Turton "Local Powers & Rural Differentiation"; A. Ganjanapan "Conflicts Over the Deployment & Control of Labor in a Northern Thai Village"; B. Fegan "The Philippines: Agrarian Stagnation Under a Decaying Regime"; C. Banzon-Bautista "The Saudi Connection: Agrarian Change in a Pampangan Village, 1977-1984"; L. T. Ghee & M.I. Said "Malaysia: Rice Peasants & Political Priorities in an Economy Undergoing Restructuring"; L.T. Ghee " Reconstituting the Peasantry: Changes in Landholding Structure in the Muda Irrigation Scheme"; F. Hüsken & B. White "Java: Social Differentiation, Food Production, & Agrarian Control; B. White & G. Wiradi "Agrarian & Nonagrarian Bases of Inequality in Nine Javanese Villages"; F. Hüsken " Cycles of Commercialization & Accumulation in a Central Javanese Village".
