Obliging Need: Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism
Autor Scott Cook, Leigh Binforden Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 1990
Obliging Need provides a detailed and comprehensive analysis of small-scale peasant and artisan enterprise in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico. The authors show how commodity production is organized and operates in different craft industries, as well as the ways in which it combines with other activities such as household chores, agriculture, wage labor, and petty commerce. They demonstrate how—contrary to developmentalist dogma—small-scale capitalism develops from within Mexico's rural economy.
These findings will be important for everyone concerned with improving the lives and economic opportunities of countryfolk in the Third World. As the authors make clear, political mobilization in rural Mexico will succeed only as it addresses the direct producers' multiple needs for land, credit, more jobs, health insurance, and, most importantly, more equitable remuneration for their labor and greater rewards for their enterprise.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292740686
ISBN-10: 0292740689
Pagini: 338
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292740689
Pagini: 338
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Scott Cook is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Leigh Binford is Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.
Cuprins
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Petty Production in Third World Capitalism Today
- 2. Agriculture and Craft Production: An Expedient Relationship
- 3. Obliging Need: Craft Production and Simple Reproduction
- 4. Beyond Simple Reproduction: The Dynamics of Peasant-Artisan Differentiation
- 5. Gender, Household Reproduction, and Commodity Production
- 6. Intermediary Capital and Petty Industry in the City and the Countryside
- 7. Petty Industry, Class Maneuvers, and the Crisis of Mexican Capitalism
- Postscript
- Appendix. Review of the Oaxaca Valley Small Industries Project
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Map. Valley of Oaxaca
Descriere
A detailed and comprehensive analysis of small-scale peasant and artisan enterprise in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico.