Work and Control in a Peasant Economy: A History of the Lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi, 1859-1960

by Elias C. Mandala

Peasants in southern Africa have too often been portrayed as technologically backward, chronically underemployed, and politically passive. Such views, says Elias Mandala in this finely particularized study of the lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi, partake more of myth than reality. Peasants are first and foremost laborers, he points out, who spend most of their lives working with their hands to meet basic human needs. In making labor the center of his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299124940
• ISBN13: 9780299124946
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"