Nonwaged peasants in the modern world-system: African households as dialectical units of capitalist exploitation and indigenous resistance, 1890-1930

Colonialism did not transform African peasants into waged labor.A majority of peasants worked as forced laborers, often unpaid, and they returned to their agricultural household labor as soon as they completed work assignments mandated by the colonizers. Colonial Africans resided in mixed livelihood...

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Autor principal:	Wilma A. Dunaway
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Publicado:	Editura ASE Bucuresti 2010
Materias:	Africa African colonialism African peasants Indigenous resistance Forced labor Nonwage labor Households Proletarianization Semiproletarians Modern world-system Economics as a science HB71-74
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b07c8643e0934cc2aa213ed6c1fd79ab2021-12-02T04:19:53ZNonwaged peasants in the modern world-system: African households as dialectical units of capitalist exploitation and indigenous resistance, 1890-19301843-22981844-8208https://doaj.org/article/b07c8643e0934cc2aa213ed6c1fd79ab2010-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.jpe.ro/poze/articole/52.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/1843-2298https://doaj.org/toc/1844-8208Colonialism did not transform African peasants into waged labor.A majority of peasants worked as forced laborers, often unpaid, and they returned to their agricultural household labor as soon as they completed work assignments mandated by the colonizers. Colonial Africans resided in mixed livelihood households in which nonwaged labor forms (both free and unfree) predominated, and very few became dependent on wages. For a majority of colonial Africans, informal sector activities, tenancy,sharecropping, and subsistence production on communal plots were not temporary nonwaged forms on an inevitable path toward proletarianization.Wage earning was not the primary mechanism through which thesehouseholds were integrated into the modern world-system. Instead, these households primarily provided nonwaged labors to capitalist commodity chains that, in turn, extracted surpluses from them and externalized costs of production to them.Wilma A. DunawayEditura ASE BucurestiarticleAfricaAfrican colonialismAfrican peasantsIndigenous resistanceForced laborNonwage laborHouseholdsProletarianizationSemiproletariansModern world-systemEconomics as a scienceHB71-74DEENFRJournal of Philosophical Economics, Vol IV, Iss 1, Pp 19-57 (2010)
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description	Colonialism did not transform African peasants into waged labor.A majority of peasants worked as forced laborers, often unpaid, and they returned to their agricultural household labor as soon as they completed work assignments mandated by the colonizers. Colonial Africans resided in mixed livelihood households in which nonwaged labor forms (both free and unfree) predominated, and very few became dependent on wages. For a majority of colonial Africans, informal sector activities, tenancy,sharecropping, and subsistence production on communal plots were not temporary nonwaged forms on an inevitable path toward proletarianization.Wage earning was not the primary mechanism through which thesehouseholds were integrated into the modern world-system. Instead, these households primarily provided nonwaged labors to capitalist commodity chains that, in turn, extracted surpluses from them and externalized costs of production to them.
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title_short	Nonwaged peasants in the modern world-system: African households as dialectical units of capitalist exploitation and indigenous resistance, 1890-1930
title_full	Nonwaged peasants in the modern world-system: African households as dialectical units of capitalist exploitation and indigenous resistance, 1890-1930
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Nonwaged peasants in the modern world-system: African households as dialectical units of capitalist exploitation and indigenous resistance, 1890-1930

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