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Historically, peasants have been beholden to powerful outsiders and outside forces. As long as they were not politicised or socially mobilised they remained economically fragmented, operating as atomistic independent producers who were largely at the mercy of external appropriators or market trends.
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Watters, R.F. (1994). The Unequal Exchange Model of Peasantry. In: Poverty and Peasantry in Peru’s Southern Andes, 1963–90. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12319-3_9
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