- Peasantry, Peasants, Social conditions, Agriculture
"James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household -- subsistence -- at the center of this study.
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- Author
- James C. Scott
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780300185553
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“The distinctive economic behavior of the subsistence-oriented peasant family results from the fact that, unlike a capitalist enterprise, it is a unit of consumption as well as a unit of production.”
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