SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Water Scarcity, Openaccess, Surface Runoff
24 Jan 2013
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May produce in part for own subsistence, but def by relationships to markets (state + regulations) Peasants = agriculturalists (subsistent peasantries exist in past today, virtually nowhere) Domination of 1 aspect of like (ex: poli) have very far-reaching consequences other domains of life. Resource gained through poli connections transformed into resources that can be exported. Emancipated fr/earlier serfs, agriculturalists, villages, live under capitalist class of land owners. Revolution changed all that , peasnta = un-free labour, tied to land. Rev: collectivized agricul, create vast class of rural agricul labourers. Not peasants working own plots of land, working irrigated land. Larger land owners who can produce more w/irrigation, little guys pushed to marginal land. Latam: contrast b/w large + small states of individ peasant socs. Usually, all children of family have equal claim on land. If small peasant farmer has 2 or 3 hectares of land w/5 children.
