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The emergence of inequality among capitalizing family farmers in Mexico.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The emergence of inequality among capitalizing family farmers in Mexico./
Author:	McDonald, James Hogue.
Description:	343 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-11, Section: A, page: 3984.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International52-11A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9210408

The emergence of inequality among capitalizing family farmers in Mexico.
McDonald, James Hogue.

The emergence of inequality among capitalizing family farmers in Mexico. - 343 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-11, Section: A, page: 3984.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 1991.

Differences in initial landholding and the household's domestic cycle were central factors determining economic inequality within a community of capitalizing family farmers in central Mexico from 1963-1988. This study shows that domestic cycle factors were closely associated with the timing and degree of mechanization among farmers. In turn, mechanization permitted farmers to intensify and expand their operations. Households were most likely to mechanize as a replacement strategy for household labor that became increasingly expensive to support as sons married and started their own patrilocally residing families. Additionally, labor deficient households were also likely to mechanize as a means of avoiding hiring wage labor, and keep all major aspects of production under the control of household members. Land also played a role in the emergent inequality in the community, but in ways that run counter to standard logic. Households owning more land at the outset of their farming careers have fared far worse than those starting with less. Greater debt initially reduced the ability of these operations from making capital investments similar to their smaller counterparts. Lack of investment made these operations reliant on household labor once they were out of debt in the early 1970s. As sons matured and married, these farms had increasingly expensive work forces. Hence, factors internal to the household contributed to their failure, as well as the exogenous factor of debt. Subsequently, however, land accumulation by some of the smaller farmers has further enhanced differentiation within La Perla, and resulted in the creation of a local elite.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

The emergence of inequality among capitalizing family farmers in Mexico.
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520 $a This research also addresses the consequences of state policies and prolonged economic instability on these small capitalist farmers. This concern leads to several conclusions about the consequences of new state policies supporting the privatization of agriculture for small-scale producers and domestic food production.
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