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Food Insecurity and the Social Division of Labour in Tanzania,1919-85

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Authors:
  1. Deborah Fahy Bryceson

    1. Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Food Supply in Pre-Industrial Societies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Population/Food Production Capability Balance at the Outset of Industrialisation

      • Deborah Fahy Bryceson
      Pages 3-8

    3. The Relationship Between Population, the Social Division of Labour and Food Supply

      • Deborah Fahy Bryceson
      Pages 9-17

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 18-18
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  4. The Peasant Household, the Environment and Food Insecurity, 1919–85

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Physical Determinants of Food Insecurity and Settlement

      • Deborah Fahy Bryceson
      Pages 21-37

    3. Characteristics of the Peasant Household Farming Unit

      • Deborah Fahy Bryceson
      Pages 38-43

    4. The Incidence of Household Food Inadequacy

      • Deborah Fahy Bryceson
      Pages 44-51

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 52-55
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  6. Extra-Household Social Institutions and Food Insecurity: State, Market and Clientage Networks, 1919–50

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Defining Extra-Household Social Institutions

      • Deborah Fahy Bryceson
      Pages 59-64

    3. The British Colonial State

      • Deborah Fahy Bryceson
      Pages 65-70

    4. The Asian Market

      • Deborah Fahy Bryceson
      Pages 71-75

    5. Native Authority Clientage

      • Deborah Fahy Bryceson
      Pages 76-87

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 88-89
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  8. Wage-Labour Force Food Demand and Supply Arrangements, 1919–50

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Food Supply for an African Wage-Labour Force, 1919–39

      • Deborah Fahy Bryceson
      Pages 93-114

    3. The Systematisation of Territorial Food Supply: 1939–50

      • Deborah Fahy Bryceson
      Pages 115-124

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 125-127
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About this book

Most studies of famine and the African food crisis stress how the socio-economic context influences the occurrence of food shortages. By contrast, this book argues that food insecurity itself influences the social and economic organization of the society. Through this approach, the author provides a new interpretation of the causes and consequences of Tanzania's present economic crisis. The book examines the effects of changing food availability on the functioning of the state, the market and clientage networks, over the past seven decades. The conclusion is that clientage is no less important than the state and market as an organizational force in Tanzanian society, and, under heightened food insecurity, the state and market lose ground to clientage.

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  • Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson

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DEBORAH FAHY BRYCESON

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