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The Political Economy of Gutswirtschaft: A Comparative Analysis of East Elbian Germany, Egypt, and Chile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Alan Richards
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University of California, Santa Cruz

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In many otherwise diverse societies, owners of large agricultural estates have paid their year-round workers with the use of a piece of land on which to produce their own subsistence crops. In a “preliminary report” Magnus Morner cited some eleven examples of this system in Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Although Mörner mentions different influences, he does not advance an argument to explain these systems. This essay seeks to contribute to our understanding of the political economy of these “labor rent” or “estate labor” systems. The paper is exploratory: previous approaches are considered, a theoretical framework is proposed, and some tentative hypotheses are presented. My evidence comes from three examples: the Insten system of East Elbian Germany from ca. 1750 to ca. 1860; the ‘izbah system of the Egyptian Delta from ca. 1850 to ca. 1940; and the pre-1930 inquilinaje system of Central Chile.

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Agricultural Labor and Capitlism
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1979

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Many people have helped me with this paper. I would like to thank Alexander J. Field, Antonio Gilman, Isebille Gruhn, Jay Mandle, Juan Martinez-Alier, Ben Tipton and the members of the Santa Cruz Seminar in Comparative History for encouragement and suggestions. I am especially indebted to Richard Gordon and Walter Goldfrank for criticisms and discussion. Of course, I alone am responsible for what follows.

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