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Family Farming and Household Enterprise in a Philippine Community, 1971–1988: Persistence or Proletarianization?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

James F. Eder
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The tenacity of family-farming households in agrarian economies experiencing capitalist penetration has long figured in a debate about the ultimate consequences of such penetration for agrarian social structure. On the one hand are those who argue that, while various forces may work to speed or delay the process, the most likely long-term outcome of the capitalization of agriculture is that envisioned by Lenin: polarization of the countryside into two opposing classes, capitalist farmers and landless laborers, linked by wage relations (Bartra 1974; de Janvry 1981). On the other hand are those who claim that, at least under some conditions, capitalist farming can stimulate small-scale entrepreneurship and socioeconomic differentiation, with the attendant persistence of small family farms (Goodman and Redclift 1982:109–12; Maclachlan 1987:16–23).

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , August 1993 , pp. 647 - 671
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993

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