Bunce, B. orcid.org/0000-0003-4872-4238 (2023) A methodology for class analysis: agricultural investments and agrarian change in South Africa. Journal of Agrarian Change, 23 (2). pp. 404-432. ISSN 1471-0358
Abstract
This paper presents a class-analytic approach, which combines a “labour exploitation criterion” with class typologies developed for the South African context and the author's additions. The labour exploitation criterion distinguishes between rural classes based on the degree to which one employs others, works for others, or works for oneself. I combine the principal indicator of “labour exploitation” with the income contributions of social grants, ownership of farming assets and livestock, and the contribution of agricultural production to simple or expanded reproduction. Debates around class formation are explored in the context of a comparative analysis of two joint venture (JV) dairy farms, located in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, which involve residents as both landowners and workers. A class-analytic approach illuminates the emerging agrarian class structure that a JV-type intervention both reflects and in turn conditions, in dialectical fashion, with important implications for debates around agrarian change in South Africa.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author. Journal of Agrarian Change published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
Keywords: | agrarian change; agricultural investments; class dynamics; joint ventures; social differentiation; South Africa |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2022 12:19 |
Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2024 15:01 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/joac.12505 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:189995 |