Labour, land, and capital in Ghana : from slavery to free labour in Asante, 1807-1956 /

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An examination of the varied ways, outside and inside markets, in which Asante producers obtained labor, land and capital during the transformative era. This is a study of the changing rules and relationships within which natural, human and man-made resources were mobilized for production during the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Austin, Gareth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2005.
Colección:Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 18.
Temas:
1800-1999
Land tenure > Ashanti (Kingdom) > History > 19th century.
Land tenure > Ashanti (Kingdom) > History > 20th century.
Labor > Ashanti (Kingdom) > History > 19th century.
Labor > Ashanti (Kingdom) > History > 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Economic history.
Labor.
Land tenure.
Wirtschaft
Landbouweconomie.
Landrechten.
Arbeidsverhoudingen.
Ashanti (Kingdom) > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Ashanti (Kingdom) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Africa > Ashanti (Kingdom)
Region Ashanti
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""LIST OF TABLES""; ""PREFACE""; ""NOTE ON NAMES""; ""MAPS ""; ""NOTE ON THE MAPS""; ""1. Introduction ""; ""PART I. Context and Concepts""; ""2. Theories and Debates: Some Tools for Thinking about the History of Property and Markets in Asante and Beyond""; ""3. Asante, 1807â€?1956: The State, Output and Resources ""; ""4. The Changing Relationship Between Inputs and Output, 1807â€?1956 ""; ""Part II. Social Relations of Production and Trade, 1807â€?1896: Absent and Imperfect Factor Markets""; ""5. Land Tenure, 1807â€?1896 ""
  • ""6 The Mobilization of Labour, 1807â€?1896""""Appendix: Nineteenth-Century Slave Prices ""; ""7. Capital and Credit, 1807â€?1896""; ""Part III. Slavery as Hobsonâ€?s Choice: An Analysis of the Interaction of Mark ets and Coercion in Asanteâ€?s Era of â€?Legitimate Commerceâ€?, 1807â€?1896""; ""8. Factor Markets Without Free Labour: The Nieboer Hypothesis and Asante Slavery and Pawnship, 1807â€?1896""; ""9. Gender and Kinship Aspects of the Social Relations of Production, 1807â€?1896 ""
  • ""10. Exploitation and Welfare: Class and â€?Social Efficiencyâ€? Implications of the Property Rights Regime, 1807â€?1896 """"Part IV. The Decline of Coercion in the Factor Markets of Colonial Asante: Cocoa and the Ending of Slavery, Pawnship and Corvée, 1896â€?c.1950""; ""11. Why Was Prohibition So Long Delayed? The Nature and Motives of the Gradualism of the British â€?Men on the Spotâ€? ""; ""12. The Decline of Coerced Labour and Property in Persons in Practice: Change from Above and from Below in Colonial Asante, 1896â€?1950 ""
  • ""13. Cocoa and the Ending of Labour Coercion, c.1900â€?c.1950 """"Part V. Social Relations of Production and Trade, 1908â€?1956: Towards Integrated Factor Markets?""; ""14. Land Tenure: What Kind of Transformation under Cash-Cropping and Colonial Rule? ""; ""15. Capital and Credit: Locking Farms to Credit""; ""16. Free Labour: Family Workers, the Spread of Wage Contracts, and the Rise of Sharecropping ""; ""Part VI. Freedom and Forest Rent, 1908â€?1956""; ""17. Land in a Tree-Farm Economy""; ""18. Capital in a Tree-Farm Economy""
  • 19. Free Labour: Why the Newly-Emerged Regular Wage Contracts Were Eclipsed by Sharecropping20 Conclusion
  • ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES
  • NOTES
  • LIST OF REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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