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Title: | De Facto Wage-Earners in the Gezira Scheme (Sudan) |
Author: | Founou-Tchuigoua, B. |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January-March |
Pages: | 25-51 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | labour development projects Labor and Employment Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Bibliography/Research |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24486328 |
Abstract: | The Gezira-Managil scheme has been in operation since 1925 and covers an area of nearly 800,000 hectares. Nearly 100,000 tenants are permanently engaged in the scheme; there are over 550,000 seasonal workers, 1,578 local inspectors and 7546 employers of the Gezira Board. According to the texts dating from 1919 and 1927 which regulate the project's legal status, there are three partners with equal rights in the farming of the Gezira: the tenants (metayers) who produce the cotton; the State, which is a 'tenant farmer' (fermier) and owns the irrigation system; and the Sudan Plantation Syndicate, a body entrusted by the State with the management of its 'farming lease'. These legal relationships, however, do not coincide with the basic relations of production, as the author demonstrates by an analysis of the relations between tenants and the State on the one hand, and those between tenants and the mass of seasonal workers on the other. Seasonal workers are legally the tenants' wage labour. But in the final analysis both tenants and seasonal workers are wage earners of the Sudanese State. Notes, tab., French sum. |