Cotton Is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961

Abstract

Introduction: The setting - the antecedents and formation of the Mozambican cotton regime 180-1938. Part One Cotton and rural labour 1938-51: cotton, colonialism and work variations in the cotton regimes peasants at work - gardening and ginning. Part Two The era of reform 1951-61: reforming the system - rationalizing the labour process. Part Three Long-term consequences 1938-61: cotton and food insecurity cotton and rural differentiation coping with the demands of cotton cotton, the labour process and rural protest.