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Peasants, merchants, & politicians in tobacco production : Philippine social relations in a global economy
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Peasants, merchants, & politicians in tobacco production : Philippine social relations in a global economy

Author: Patricia Torres Mejia
Publisher: Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Patricia Torres Mejia
ISBN: 9715502822 9789715502825
OCLC Number: 46475250
Description: xiii, 233 p., [1] p. of plates : maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1 Ilokano Tobacco Society -- Literature on Filipino Peasantry -- The Research Area as a Social Field -- The Social Process of Production -- Physiography and Use of the Land, -- Social Groupings -- Thirty Years of Virginia Tobacco -- 2 Land and Technology -- Agricultural Production -- The Importance of Virginia Tobacco Production -- 3 Ethnic Integration and Distinction among Peasants -- Land-Use Relationships. -- Residential Neighborhoods, -- Lowland and Highland Peasants -- Status and Social Position from Below -- 4 Peasants' Agricultural Resources and Relationships -- Agricultural Activities. -- "Ammoyo" Reciprocity -- Agricultural Resources -- 5 Tobacco Merchants -- Candon as Center of Tobacco Trade -- Integration and Participation in Traae -- Social Position -- Credit and Trade. -- Trade and the Control of Production. -- 6 Political Representatives and Bureaucrats. -- Economic and Political Power -- Bureaucracy and Social Control -- Patron-Client Relations -- Political Factions -- 7 Tobacco Society in the Ilocos and Beyond. -- Control of Resources. -- Social and Economic Expectations -- Candon Fiesta as Microcosm -- State Intervention -- Market Control -- Conflictive Interests and Necessary Alliances.
Other Titles: Peasants, merchants, and politicians in tobacco production, Philippine social relations in a global economy
Responsibility: Patricia Torres-Mejia.
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