Cotton is the mother of poverty : peasants, work, and rural struggle in colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961 /

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Author / Creator:	Isaacman, Allen F.
Imprint:	Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann ; Cape Town, [South Africa] : David Philip ; London : James Currey, c1996.
Description:	xii, 272 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Social history of Africa
Subject:	Cotton growing -- Mozambique -- History -- 20th century. Peasantry -- Mozambique -- History -- 20th century. Cotton growing. Peasants. Rural conditions. Mozambique -- Rural conditions. Mozambique. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2397090

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ISBN:	0435089765 (Heinemann cloth : acid-free paper) 0435089781 (Heinemann paper) 0852556713 (James Currey cloth) 0852556217 (James Currey paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. The Antecedents and Formation of the Mozambican Cotton Regime, 1800-1938
3. Cotton, Colonialism, and Work
4. Variations in the Cotton Regime
5. Peasants at Work: Marketing and Ginning
6. Reforming the System: Rationalizing the Labor Process
7. Cotton and Food Insecurity
8. Cotton and Rural Differentiation
9. Coping with the Demands of Cotton
10. Cotton, the Labor Process, and Rural Protest
Appendix A Concessionary Companies in Mozambique, 1950s
Appendix B Cotton Production Statistics, Select Southern Circumscriptions, 1940s
Appendix C Marketed Products, Macomia Circumscription, 1946-1959
Appendix D Marketed Products, Nampula Circumscription, 1943-1959
Appendix E Marketed Products, Morrumbala Circumscription, 1943-1959
Appendix F Marketed Products, Mogovolas Circumscription, 1943-1959.

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