Peasants In Distress
Peasants In Distress

Author: Rosemary Vargas-Lundius

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-05

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1000314812

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A study of economic development in the Dominican Republic, this book argues that rigid economic structures and poor use of labour resources have created conditions that undermine the demand for labour, and maintain perpetual poverty and unemployment. Viewing the problem from a broad perspective, the author analyzes labour and credit markets, offers empirical data on agricultural yields, and examines such socioeconomic issues as the living conditions among the peasantry, the demand for immigrant Haitian labour, and migration from rural to urban areas.

China's Peasants
China's Peasants

Author: Sulamith Heins Potter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-03-29

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780521357876

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The revolutionary experiences of Cantonese peasant villagers are documented in the first comprehensive analysis of rural Chinese society by foreign anthropologists since the Revolution of 1949.

Stalinism in a Russian Province
Stalinism in a Russian Province

Author: J. Hughes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1996-11-04

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0230379982

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Stalinism in a Russian Province reexamines the agrarian policy pillars of Stalin's 'revolution from above' initiated in 1929-30, and is the first major study of its kind since the opening of Soviet archives. Through a pioneering application of the theoretical approaches of moral and political economy to Stalin's peasant policy, Hughes reevaluates the causes and processes involved in the great political, economic and social changes in the Soviet countryside. Rather than a bipolarized conflict between state and peasant, he profiles the socially variegated response of different peasant groups to collectivization and dekulakization and argues that it was as much a process involving social conflict between peasants.

Agrarian Distress and Farmer Suicides in North India
Agrarian Distress and Farmer Suicides in North India

Author: Lakhwinder Singh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-01-13

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1317331214

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Agrarian distress in the era of globalization has manifested in the suicides of farmers and agricultural labourers. This book, using empirical research and field data from north India, especially Punjab, examines the different facets of this tragic phenomenon in rural India. Situating Indian agriculture in the context of globalization it looks at the underlying causes of farmer suicides in a state that was the model of modern capitalist agriculture and development. It also attempts to understand why other farmers have chosen not to take the same path. With a comparative framework and coverage of nearly 1400 rural households, it brings out the brutal manifestation of this complex and multidimensional situation in the Indian countryside. Topical, comprehensive and rich in data, this book will be valuable to scholars and researchers of political economy, agricultural economics, South Asian politics, political sociology, and public policy.