Logic of Poverty - The Case of the Brazilian Northeast

First published in 1981, The Logic of Poverty consists of eight essays that look at rural structure and the role of the unemployed 'reserve army', the state of the sugar industry, the ineffectiveness of the irrigation schemes, the stagnation in the fishing sector, and the lack of credit available to peasants in Northeastern Brazil.

List of contents

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Rural structure, surplus mobilisation and modes of production in a peripheral region 3. Hunger in the Northeast 4. The hungry imagination 5. On the relationship between the subsistence sector and the market economy in the Parnaiba valley 6. Stagnant peasant capitalism 7. Innovation and social structure 8. Irrigation in the Brazilian Northeast 9. State and society in Northeastern Brazil

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Edited by Simon Mitchell

Summary

First published in 1981, The Logic of Poverty consists of eight essays that look at rural structure and the role of the unemployed ‘reserve army’, the state of the sugar industry, the ineffectiveness of the irrigation schemes, the stagnation in the fishing sector, and the lack of credit available to peasants in Northeastern Brazil.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Mitchell
• Assisted by: Simon Mitchell (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032762593
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3276259-3
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Brazil, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Poverty & unemployment, Social and cultural anthropology, Human Geography, Poverty and precarity, Brazil: Northeast Region, poverty;northeast brazil;latin america;logic