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Fields of Resistanceby Silvia Giagnoni
Haymarket Books 2011; US$ 17.00A firsthand account of the modern-day slavery faced by migrant laborers and their inspiring struggle against inhuman conditions. more...
Latin American Peasantsby Tom Brass
Frank Cass 2003; US$ 57.95The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America. more...
Creating the Florentine Stateby Samuel K. Jr Cohn
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 34.00This book takes a new approach to the political history of the Italian Renaissance by examining the mountainous periphery of the Florentine state and the political effects of widespread and successful peasant uprisings, hitherto unrecorded by historians, during the period 1348-1434. more...
Agricultural Trade and Povertyby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 75.00One in five of the world's population live in extreme poverty, with a per capita income of less than a dollar a day. At least two-thirds of these people live in rural areas, where farming is the dominant source of income. At the same time, the poorest non-farm households spend a relatively large share of their budgets on food. more...
Tunisiaby Ajit Ghose; Vali Jamal
Taylor & Francis 1990; US$ 218.00Identifies the reasons for the present crisis in the Tunisian economy, looks closely at the transformation of the economy, and assesses its implication, particularly for the labour market and the distribution of income and welfare. more...
The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726by Govind P. Sreenivasan; Lyndal Roper
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 63.00The most detailed reconstruction to date of peasant society in early modern Germany, focusing on the lands of the Benedictine monastery of Ottobeuren. Based on a mass of archival data, the book argues that the German rural economy performed much better than has previously been believed. more...
French Peasant Fascismby Robert O. Paxton
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 45.00French Peasant Fascism is the first account of the Greenshirts, a militant right-wing peasant movement in 1930s France that sought to transform the Republic into an authoritarian, agrarian state. Author Robert Paxton examines the Greenshirts in five case studies, throwing new light on French rural society and institutions during the Depression and on the emergence of a new rural leadership of authentic farmers. Paxton points out that fascism remained weak in the French countryside because the French state protected landowners more effectively than did those of Weimar Germany and Italy, and because French rural notables were so firmly embedded in social and economic power. Although the Greenshirts disappeared with the Third Republic, they left... more...
The Farmworkers? Journeyby Ann Aurelia Lopez
University of California Press 2007; US$ 21.95Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Over the course of ten years, Ann Aurelia López conducted a series of intimate interviews with farmworkers and their families along the migrant circuit. She deftly weaves their voices together with up-to-date research to portray a world hidden from most Americans?a world of inescapable poverty that has worsened considerably since NAFTA was implemented in 1994. In fact, today it has become nearly impossible for rural communities in Mexico to continue to farm the land sustainably, leaving few survival options except the perilous... more...
The Dynamics of Hired Farm Labourby J.L. Findeis; A. Vandeman; J. Larson; J. Runyan
CAB International 2002; US$ 120.00Hired seasonal labour forms a significant part of the agricultural workforce in many countries. This book focuses on labour used in agriculture in the US, Canada and Australia. The perpective is interdisciplinary, with contributions from economists, sociologists and anthropologists. more...
The Moral Economy Reconsideredby Stephen K. Wegren
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 90.00Presents an analysis of rural change to marketization and globalization. Using Russia as a case study, this book examines how the rural population responded to reform policies during the transition away from communism. This nuanced analysis sheds light on debates over whether actors are motivated by rational or moral considerations. more...