Peasants in the Making : : Malaysia's Green Revolution / / Diana Wong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Wong, Diana,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [1987]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 1987
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)

This study of the so-called "Green Revolution" in the rice bowl region of Malaysia aims to provide an interpretation of recent changes in the Malaysian agrarian structure, and to make an analytical and theoretical contribution to the long-standing intellectual debate on the "agrarian question". By joining the micro-world of household social structure and economy to the macro-world of changes in production relations, it traces out a specific trajectory of agrarian development in Malaysia.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I The Framing of the Study -- 1. The Empirical Setting: The Green Revolution and Muda -- 2. Peasant Reproduction: A Framework of Analysis -- 3. The Making of the Muda Region: The Social Organization of Land Colonization -- Part 11 The Anatomy of the Village -- 4. The Village in Its Social Setting -- 5. The Village Households: Indicators of Social Differentiation -- 6. The Sample Households: Patterns of Social Differentiation -- Part III The Transformation of the Village Economy -- 7. The Production Cycle and the Division of Labour -- 8. Landownership and Land Tenure -- 9. Rural Indebtedness and the Marketing of Padi -- 10. Patterns of Change in the Non-Padi Economy -- Part IV The Transformation of Village Society: The Unfolding of Social Differentiation -- 11. Kinship and the Family Development Cycle -- 12. The Village as a Community -- 13. The Pattern of Leadership: From Patron to Broker -- Part V Conclusion -- 14. Peasants in the Making- Muda's Green Revolution? -- Appendix I. NOTES ON RESEARCH METHODOLOGY -- Appendix II. QUESTIONNAIRE -- Bibliography -- THE AUTHOR