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Author Austin, Gareth, author.

Title Labour, land, and capital in Ghana : from slavery to free labour in Asante, 1807-1956 / Gareth Austin
Published Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 589 pages) : maps
Series Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 ; [v. 18]
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 18. 1092-5228
Contents ""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""LIST OF TABLES""; ""PREFACE""; ""NOTE ON NAMES""; ""MAPS ""; ""NOTE ON THE MAPS""; ""1. Introduction ""; ""PART I. Context and Concepts""; ""2. Theories and Debates: Some Tools for Thinking about the History of Property and Markets in Asante and Beyond""; ""3. Asante, 1807�1956: The State, Output and Resources ""; ""4. The Changing Relationship Between Inputs and Output, 1807�1956 ""; ""Part II. Social Relations of Production and Trade, 1807�1896: Absent and Imperfect Factor Markets""; ""5. Land Tenure, 1807�1896 ""
""6 The Mobilization of Labour, 1807�1896""""Appendix: Nineteenth-Century Slave Prices ""; ""7. Capital and Credit, 1807�1896""; ""Part III. Slavery as Hobson�s Choice: An Analysis of the Interaction of Mark ets and Coercion in Asante�s Era of �Legitimate Commerce�, 1807�1896""; ""8. Factor Markets Without Free Labour: The Nieboer Hypothesis and Asante Slavery and Pawnship, 1807�1896""; ""9. Gender and Kinship Aspects of the Social Relations of Production, 1807�1896 ""
""10. Exploitation and Welfare: Class and �Social Efficiency� Implications of the Property Rights Regime, 1807�1896 """"Part IV. The Decline of Coercion in the Factor Markets of Colonial Asante: Cocoa and the Ending of Slavery, Pawnship and Corvée, 1896�c.1950""; ""11. Why Was Prohibition So Long Delayed? The Nature and Motives of the Gradualism of the British �Men on the Spot� ""; ""12. The Decline of Coerced Labour and Property in Persons in Practice: Change from Above and from Below in Colonial Asante, 1896�1950 ""
""13. Cocoa and the Ending of Labour Coercion, c.1900�c.1950 """"Part V. Social Relations of Production and Trade, 1908�1956: Towards Integrated Factor Markets?""; ""14. Land Tenure: What Kind of Transformation under Cash-Cropping and Colonial Rule? ""; ""15. Capital and Credit: Locking Farms to Credit""; ""16. Free Labour: Family Workers, the Spread of Wage Contracts, and the Rise of Sharecropping ""; ""Part VI. Freedom and Forest Rent, 1908�1956""; ""17. Land in a Tree-Farm Economy""; ""18. Capital in a Tree-Farm Economy""
19. Free Labour: Why the Newly-Emerged Regular Wage Contracts Were Eclipsed by Sharecropping20 Conclusion -- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES -- NOTES -- LIST OF REFERENCES -- INDEX
Summary An examination of the varied ways, outside and inside markets, in which Asante producers obtained labor, land and capital during the transformative era. This is a study of the changing rules and relationships within which natural, human and man-made resources were mobilized for production during the development of an agricultural export economy in Asante, a major West African kingdom which became, by 1945, the biggest regional contributor to Ghana's status as the world's largest cocoa producer. The period 1807-1956 as a whole was distinguished in Asante history by relatively favorable political conditions for indigenous as well as (during colonial rule) for foreign private enterprise. It saw generally increasing external demands for products that could be produced on Asante land. This book, which fills a major gap in Asante economic history, transcends the traditional divide between studies of precolonial and of twentieth-century African history. It analyses the interaction of coercion and the market in the context of a rich but fragile natural environment, the central process being a transition from slavery and debt-bondage to hired labor and agricultural indebtedness. It contributes to the broad debate about Africa's historic combination of emerging 'capitalist' institutions and persistent 'precapitalist' ones, and tests the major theories of the political economy of institutional change. It is written accessibly for an interdisciplinary readership. Gareth Austin is a lecturer in Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Joint Editor of the 'Journal of African History'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 456-573) and index
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Subject Land tenure -- Ashanti (Kingdom) -- History -- 19th century
Land tenure -- Ashanti (Kingdom) -- History -- 20th century
Labor -- Ashanti (Kingdom) -- History -- 19th century
Labor -- Ashanti (Kingdom) -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
Economic history.
Labor.
Land tenure.
Wirtschaft
Landbouweconomie.
Landrechten.
Arbeidsverhoudingen.
SUBJECT Ashanti (Kingdom) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Ashanti (Kingdom) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Subject Africa -- Ashanti (Kingdom)
Region Ashanti
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781580466363
1580466362