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The Decoupling of Farm and Household: Differential Consequences of Capitalist Development on Southern Illinois and Third World Family Farms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Jane H. Adams
Jane H. Adams
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Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
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The literature on women's role in economic development in the third world indicates that as agrarian societies industrialize, women tend to take on ever greater responsibility for agricultural production, in addition to their reproductive and household duties, as working age men and, in some cases, women seek wage labor to supplement insufficient farm production (Boserup 1970:80–81; Bossen 1984; Deere and León de Leal 1981; Ward 1984).

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Social Structure and the Economics of Agriculture
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , July 1988 , pp. 453 - 482
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1988

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