The cocoa plantation region of central South Cameroon : a tentative study of a local form of dominated production
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Weber, J.;United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. African Institute for Economic Development and Planning(IDEP);
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It seems that the development of an export crop such as cocoa should logically imply the emergence of a capitalist structure of production in the rural milieu. The pattern, which is now classic can be briefly explained as follows: plantation agriculture leads to the private ownership of land, the principal means of production, while the corollary to private ownership, i.e. the agricultural labor force, soon makes its appearance. With control over the land, the owners are vested with the powers of control over the production process and hence, are in the position of exploiter. And the reproduction of the production process, in reproducing the function of control together with the group behind it, makes the latter an exploiting class under a completed capitalist form of production relation. It is our aim to show, from a case study of the cocoa plantation region of Central South Cameroon, that such a pattern is not via-versal, that the domination of local forms of production does not necessarily go through the process of actual development of this pattern; in fact, it is far from doing so.
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“Weber, J.; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. African Institute for Economic Development and Planning(IDEP) (1974-03). The cocoa plantation region of central South Cameroon : a tentative study of a local form of dominated production. Dakar. © UN. IDEP. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/42254”Collections
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