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_aRobertson, A.F.
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500 _a++ Bib. p. 474-478
520 _aThis speculative essay seeks an interpretation of abusa, a share cropping arrangement which has been of fundamental importance in the development of the Ghanaian cocoa industry. According to theoretical expectations, such an arrangement is both inefficient and inequitable, a 'pre-modern' or 'pre-capitalist' productive relationship which will inevitable yield to a pattern of fixed rents and wage labour. Her, the role of abusa in the spectacular growth of the cocoa economy and in its recent decline is examined with reference to the development of individual contracts. It is argued that this 'ontogenetic' development of abusa is structured by the changing domestic circunstances of farm owner and farm worker; their competing interests in a maturing cocoa farm are negotiated and expressed in a sequence of contractual arrangements which gives the worker increasing access to the land and the product of this own labour. It is suggested that if the evolution of productive relations towards more evidently capitalist forms has been slow and uncertain, this is largely because social processes of the kind manifest in the individual abusa contract develop in what is effectively a contrary direction.
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_aINDUSTRIA CACAOTERA
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_aESTRUCTURA DE LA PRODUCCION
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_aUTILIZACION DE LA TIERRA
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_aCONDICIONES SOCIALES
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_aSITUACION ECONOMICA
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_aMANO DE OBRA
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_aTENENCIA
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_aAGRICULTURA CONTRACTUAL
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_aGHANA
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_aCOCOA INDUSTRY
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_aPRODUCTION STRUCTURE
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_aLAND USE
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_aSOCIAL CONDITIONS
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_aECONOMIC SITUATION
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_aMANPOWER
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_aTENURE
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_aCONTRACT FARMING
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_aGHANA
692 _aINDUSTRIE DU CACAO
692 _aSTRUCTURE DE PRODUCTION
692 _aUTILISATION DES TERRES
692 _aCONDITION SOCIALE
692 _aSITUATION ECONOMIQUE
692 _aMAIN D'OEUVRE
692 _aMODE DE FAIRE VALOIR
692 _aAGRICULTURE CONTRACTUELLE
692 _aGHANA
773 0 _tJournal of Developmental Studies (RU)
_d1982
_gv. 18(4) p. 447-478
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245 1 0 _aAbusa: the structural history of an economic contract
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