Abstract
Agricultural development and the emergence of a rural petty bourgeoisie (that is, the farmers) were central elements of the modernization process in most industrialized countries. The successful mobilization and organization of commercialized peasants and farmers was in particular vital to Western history (Esman and Uphoff 1984: 31). With the labour movement, producer oriented agrarian movements mobilized the majority of the population, and made them co-actors in the great social transformations which created the modern world (Olofsson 1988: 17). The significance of these movements can still be seen in the considerable political leverage that farmers have, despite their numerical weakness, on contemporary policies in Western Europe and North America.
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