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Author Isaacman, Allen F.

Title Cotton is the mother of poverty : peasants, work, and rural struggle in colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961 / Allen Isaacman
Published Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann ; Cape Town [South Africa] : David Philip ; London : James Currey, [1996]
©1996

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Description xii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Series Social history of Africa
Social history of Africa.
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
Analysis Cotton Production
Mozambique
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Cotton growing -- Mozambique -- History -- 20th century.
Peasants -- Mozambique -- History -- 20th century.
SUBJECT Mozambique http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81082759 -- Rural conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007670
LC no. 95014471
ISBN 0435089765 (Heinemann cloth : acid-free paper)
0435089781 (Heinemann paper)
0852556217 (James Currey paper)
0852556713 (James Currey cloth)