Peasants, merchants, & politicians in tobacco production
Subtitle: Philippine social relations in a global economy
By: Patricia Torres-Mejia.
Publisher: Ateneo de Manila University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Quezon City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Tobacco industry -- Philippines; Tobacco industry -- Social aspects -- Philippines; Peasantry -- Philippines; Philippines -- Economic conditions -- 1946-
Other titles: Peasants, merchants, and politicians in tobacco production; Philippine social relations in a global economy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Ilokano Tobacco Society; title: Literature on Filipino Peasantry; title: The Research Area as a Social Field; title: The Social Process of Production; title: Physiography and Use of the Land,; title: Social Groupings; title: Thirty Years of Virginia Tobacco; title: 2 Land and Technology; title: Agricultural Production; title: The Importance of Virginia Tobacco Production; title: 3 Ethnic Integration and Distinction among Peasants; title: Land-Use Relationships.; title: Residential Neighborhoods,; title: Lowland and Highland Peasants; title: Status and Social Position from Below; title: 4 Peasants' Agricultural Resources and Relationships; title: Agricultural Activities.; title: "Ammoyo" Reciprocity; title: Agricultural Resources; title: 5 Tobacco Merchants; title: Candon as Center of Tobacco Trade; title: Integration and Participation in Traae; title: Social Position; title: Credit and Trade.; title: Trade and the Control of Production.; title: 6 Political Representatives and Bureaucrats.; title: Economic and Political Power; title: Bureaucracy and Social Control; title: Patron-Client Relations; title: Political Factions; title: 7 Tobacco Society in the Ilocos and Beyond.; title: Control of Resources.; title: Social and Economic Expectations; title: Candon Fiesta as Microcosm; title: State Intervention; title: Market Control; title: Conflictive Interests and Necessary Alliances.