Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice

by Susan Archer Mann

Book Overview

Susan Mann focuses on a longstanding controversy in sociological theory: why has agriculture been traditionally resistant to wage labor? Capitalist develoment has been slower and more uneven in agriculture than in other spheres of production, and major parts of the rural economy remain almost preindustrial in their reliance on family labor, lack of separation between industry and household, and failure to develop a highly specialized division of labor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807818852
• ISBN13: 9780807818855
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"