Labourers and Landowners in Southern Spain

von Juan Martinez Alier

352 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Latifundia are a characteristic feature of many underdeveloped agrarian economies. At the time when land reform was a burning issue for most of these countries, Labourers and Landowners in Southern Spain (originally published in 1971), a penetrating sociological and economic analysis of the Spanish experience was particularly opportune. The book examines the tensions within wage-labour latifundism and describes the value-systems of both labourers and landowners. Profit-minded landowners should prefer to become rentier landlords, but this would threaten the legitimacy of their position, which requires owner-operation. The labourers' behaviour conforms with their image of society: 'we who work' are in conflict with the landowning classes, but nevertheless 'we the poor must work'.Published originally in Spanish, this English edition has been rearranged and includes a new final chapter discussing Pitt-Rivers' and Hobsbawm's works on Andalusia, as well as dissecting Warriner's Land Reform in Principle and Practice.

• Reihe: Routledge Revivals
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781041339380
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2026
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd