Book 1977
The Moral Economy of the Peasant
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- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1977
- Peasantry
- Peasants
- Social conditions
- Agriculture
- Peasant uprisings
- Economic aspects of Agriculture
- Rural conditions
- Campesinato
The distinctive economic behavior of the subsistence-oriented peasant family results from the fact that, unlike a capitalist enterprise, it is a unit of consumption as well as a unit of production.