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PublisherHeinemann
ISBN-100435089781
ISBN-139780435089788
eBay Product ID (ePID)585021
Product Key Features
Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameCotton Is the Mother of Poverty : Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961
Publication Year1995
SubjectAgriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, Sociology / General, Africa / South / General, General, Sociology / Rural
TypeStudy Guide
Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, Social Science, Education, History
AuthorAllen Isaacman
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight14.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceElementary/High School
LCCN95-14471
Reviews"Isaacman provides both a wrenchingly detailed chronicle of the brutal monotony of the forced cotton regime, and a lucid and illuminating analysis of its contradictions.... This is an important contribution to the historiography of colonialism, labor, resistance, and agrarian change in Africa."- Sara Berry, Northwestern University, "Isaacman provides both a wrenchingly detailed chronicle of the brutal monotony of the forced cotton regime, and a lucid and illuminating analysis of its contradictions.... This is an important contribution to the historiography of colonialism, labor, resistance, and agrarian change in Africa." Sara Berry, Northwestern University, "Isaacman provides both a wrenchingly detailed chronicle of the brutal monotony of the forced cotton regime, and a lucid and illuminating analysis of its contradictions.... This is an important contribution to the historiography of colonialism, labor, resistance, and agrarian change in Africa."-Sara Berry, Northwestern University
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentPart I: The Setting Introduction; The Antecedents and Formation of the Mozambican Cotton Regime, 1800-1938 Part II: Cotton and Rural Labor, 1938-1951 Cotton, Colonialism, and Work; Variations in the Cotton Regime; Peasants at Work: Marketing and Ginning Part III The Era of Reform, 1951-1961 Reforming the System: Rationalizing the Labor Process Part IV Long-Term Consequences, 1938-1961 Cotton and Food Insecurity; Cotton and Rural Differentiation; Coping with the Demands of Cotton; Cotton, the Labor Process, and Rural Protest; Conclusion. Bibliography; Appendices; Index.
SynopsisPortuguese 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., This book explores the lives of Mozambique's cotton producers-their pain and suffering, their coping strategies, their struggles to survive.
LC Classification NumberHD9087.M62I8 1996
