Suchergebnisse

Consideration is given to three categories of labor employed on sugar plantations in northeast Brazil. Particular attention is paid to the role of wages in the reproduction of plantation labor. It is argued that tenant laborers have more in common with itinerant wage workers than with peasant smallholders. There is no indication that it is either cheaper or more efficient for these plantations to exploit peasant rather than proletarian labor. These findings carry implications about the nature of labor exploitation in peripheral regions. Modified HA.