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An examination of the varied ways, outside and inside markets, in which Asante producers obtained labor, land and capital during the transformative era.
List of contents
Theories and Debates: Some Tools for Thinking about the History of Property and Markets in Asante and Beyond
Asante, 1807-1956: the State, Output and Resources
The Changing Relationship Between Inputs and Outputs, 1807-1956
Land Tenure, 1807-1896
The Mobilization of Labour, 1807-1896
Capital and Credit, 1807-1896
Factor Markets without Free Labour: The Nieboer Hypothesis and Asante Slavery and Pawnship, 1807-1896
Gender and Kinship Aspects of the Social Relations of Production, 1807-1896
Exploitation and Welfare: Class and 'Social Efficiency' Implications of the Property Rights Regime, 1807-1896
Why Was Prohibition So Long Delayed? The Nature and Motives of the Gradualism of the British 'Men on the Spot'
The Decline of Coerced Labour and Property in Persons in Practice: Change from Above and from Below in Colonial Asante, 1896-1950
Cocoa and the Ending of Labour Coercion, c. 1900-c. 1950
Land Tenure: What Kind of Transformation under Cash-Cropping and Colonial Rule?
Capital and Credit: Locking Farms to Credit
Free Labour: Family Workers, the Spread of Wage Contracts, and the Rise of Sharecropping
Land in a Tree-Farm Economy
Capital in a Tree-Farm Economy
Free Labour: Why the Newly Emerged Wage Regular Wage Contracts Were Eclipsed by Sharecropping
