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Title:The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria
Author:Kohnert, DirkISNI
Year:1986
Periodical:The Journal of Peasant Studies
Volume:13
Issue:4
Period:July
Pages:258-271
Language:English
Geographic terms:Northern Nigeria
Nigeria
Subjects:labour
agriculture
colonialism
Labor and Employment
History and Exploration
Economics and Trade
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03066158608438312
Abstract:In order to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development - viability, surplus, and class formation - a case study is presented of the development of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria. After an analysis of the socioeconomic effects of forced and bonded labour during colonial times, the articulation of different systems of family and nonfamily labour is investigated. Class-specific effects of labour and capital input resulted in an increasing use of communal labour by rich and middle peasants after the Nigerian Civil War (1970), but although its form remained, its content changed fundamentally. The communal mode of production, based on the production unit of the extended family and institutions of social reciprocity, has been gradually destroyed. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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