Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961This study of the colonial Portuguese regime's economic policy in Mozambique shows how nearly a million African peasants were forced to grow cotton. It explores the lives of these coton producers, through interviews with former cotton growers and their families, as well as African policemen and overseers, and Portuguese settlers, merchants, missionaries and officials. |
Contents
Northern Central and Southern Mozambique | 10 |
Cotton and Rural Labor 19381951 | 38 |
Cotton Potential | 40 |
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Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in ... Allen F. Isaacman No preview available - 1996 |
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Adelina Admin administrator African agricultural Algodão Alto Molócuè areas Bravo Cabo Delgado capatazes Celeste central Mozambique Chefe chibalo Chibuto chiefs Chilundo colonial cotton company officials concentrações concessionary companies Conf Cotton Board cotton cultivation cotton fields cotton growers cotton income cotton production cotton regime cotton scheme cotton zones cultivate cotton Cultura Algodoeira district economy escudos European famine Fátima February food crops forced cotton Gastão Gaza Group interview grow cotton Guijá hectare households Ibid increased Inhambane Insp Isaacman ISANI JEAC João Contreiras José kilograms labor process land Lisbon Lourenço Marques machambeiros Macomia Magude male Manica e Sofala manioc Manjacaze Maputo Maria Mogovolas Montepuez Morrumbala Mozambican Mozambican cotton Mueda Namapa Nampula Niassa northern output overseers peanuts peasants percent plant plantations plows Portuguese Quelimane region régulos Relatório rural SAGAL seeds Sena Sugar sipais sisal Sitói social soil sorghum South southern Mozambique textile tion weeding women Zambézia