Labourers and Landowners in Southern Spain

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-33938-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

Latifundia are a characteristic feature of many underdeveloped agrarian economies. At the time when land reform was a burning issue for most of these countries, Labourers and Landowners in Southern Spain (originally published in 1971), a penetrating sociological and economic analysis of the Spanish experience was particularly opportune. The book examines the tensions within wage-labour latifundism and describes the value-systems of both labourers and landowners. Profit-minded landowners should prefer to become rentier landlords, but this would threaten the legitimacy of their position, which requires owner-operation. The labourers’ behaviour conforms with their image of society: ‘we who work’ are in conflict with the landowning classes, but nevertheless ‘we the poor must work’.

Published originally in Spanish, this English edition has been rearranged and includes a new final chapter discussing Pitt-Rivers’ and Hobsbawm’s works on Andalusia, as well as dissecting Warriner’s Land Reform in Principle and Practice.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alier, Juan Martínez

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Decisions on employment 3. Reparto 4. Union 5. Cumplir 6. The men with ideas 7. Decisions on tenancy 8. Conclusions