Primitive Capital Accumulation in the Sudan

✍ Scribed by Abbas Abdelkarim

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 110
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 7
I. THE NOTION OF PRIMITIVE CAPITAL ACCUMULATION......Page 8
II. MODE OF PRODUCTION AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC FORMATION......Page 9
III. THE CAPITALIST MODE OF PRODUCTION: DIALECTICS OF SUBORDINATION-DOMINATION AND TRANSFORMATION......Page 10
IV. PRIMITIVE CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND THE DOMINANCE OF MERCHANT CAPITAL......Page 12
Trade and the Commoditisation of the Means of Production and Consumption......Page 14
Trade, Finance and Increasing Pressures Towards Commoditisation......Page 16
Land Tenure......Page 17
Commoditisation of Land: Major Steps and Tendencies......Page 18
III. COMMODITISATION PRESSURES AND CHANGES IN THE GENDER DIVISION OF LABOUR......Page 20
INTRODUCTION......Page 22
I. ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRANSITIONAL PATTERN......Page 23
II. TENANTS’ HOUSEHOLD LABOUR INPUT......Page 24
III. TENANTS’ NEGATIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS FARM LABOUR?......Page 26
(1) Effects of technical factors (size of tenancy, cyclical development of the household, fluctuations in production and changes in the social composition of tenants)......Page 27
(2) Effects of the non-capitalist logic of the production process......Page 28
(3) Effects of the low and unstable farming income from farming, the possibilities of off-farming activities and the process of differentiation among the tenants......Page 29
Sharecropping Arrangements and their Spread in the Gezira......Page 32
IV. CLASS POSITION OF THE TENANTS AND LIMITATION TO CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT......Page 34
INTRODUCTION......Page 36
The Period Prior to the Establishment of MFS (1900–1944)......Page 37
The Development of MFS from 1944 to 1955......Page 38
II. PRECONDITIONS OF CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT IN SUDANESE AGRICULTURE......Page 40
Large Farmers......Page 41
Bildat Cultivators......Page 42
IV. THE EXPANSION OF PRIVATE CAPITALIST AGRICULTURE......Page 43
V. CONCLUSION: THE EXTENT OF MECHANISATION AND CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT......Page 45
Settled Wage Labourers and their Changing Origin......Page 47
Settled Wage Labourers and the Local Labour Market......Page 49
Wage Fixing for Settled Workers......Page 50
The Seasonal Labourers......Page 51
Recruitment of Seasonal Wage Labourers......Page 52
II. GEDAREF......Page 53
Recruitment, Wages and Bargaining......Page 54
III. SEGMENTATION OF THE RURAL LABOUR MARKET5......Page 56
Notes on the Early History, 1898 to the 1920s......Page 60
The Gezira......Page 61
Settled Wage Labour......Page 62
Gedaref......Page 63
Kababish......Page 64
Separation from the Means of Production......Page 65
The Paradox: Separation of Producers from Land in Conditions of Land Abundance......Page 67
Agricultural Wage Labourers......Page 69
III. WAGE DETERMINATION, FREE LABOUR FORMATION AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 71
Wage Determination, Bargaining Power and Class Consciousness: Some Theoretical Notes......Page 72
Within the Gezira......Page 73
The Gezira and Gedaref......Page 74
Private Merchant Capital......Page 76
Financiers of Private Pump Schemes......Page 78
Private, Local and Joint Venture Banks......Page 79
Use of Foreign Funds......Page 80
Profitability......Page 81
Dominance Enhanced by the State......Page 83
The State and Foreign Trade......Page 84
Price Control......Page 86
The Crop Trade in Gedaref......Page 87
Surplus Distribution and Use......Page 89
Financial Capital: Share in the Surplus......Page 90
Some Indicators of the Economic Crisis......Page 91
Dominance of Merchant Capital: Is It Challenged?......Page 93
A Concluding Note......Page 94
NOTES......Page 96
CITED WORKS......Page 100
NEWSPAPERS, PAMPHLETS AND ADDRESSES......Page 102
INDEX......Page 104