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Peasants and peasant societies.
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The article was published on 1987-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 225 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Peasant & Modernization theory.read more
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The sources of social power
TL;DR: The sources of social power trace their interrelations throughout human history as discussed by the authors, from neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilizations, the classical Mediterranean age and medieval Europe up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England.
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The Scramble in Africa: Reorienting Rural Livelihoods
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the economic restructuring of African smallholders' work lives has been accompanied by deep-rooted social change, where divisions of labor and decision-making power within peasant households have altered and wealth differentiation between households has deepened.
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Staying Secure, Staying Poor: The “Faustian Bargain”
TL;DR: The determining condition for poor people is uncertainty as mentioned in this paper, and the poor have less control over relationships and events around them, and are obliged to live more in the present and to discount the future.
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Towards the real green revolution? Exploring the conceptual dimensions of a new ecological modernisation of agriculture that could ‘feed the world'
Lummina Horlings,Terry Marsden +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the dominant food regime has responded to this challenge by a narrow ecological modernisation process within agriculture, which may decrease environmental effects to a certain extent, but also causes new negative side-effects and exposes some important missing links.
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World Market, State, and Family Farm: Social Bases of Household Production in the Era of Wage Labor
TL;DR: For example, between 1873 and 1935 dramatic changes took place in the character of production in the industrial nations of the world as discussed by the authors and the new social importance of wage laborers, while certainly not the only features of the era, are often viewed as its central, interrelated, and dynamic basis.