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Labourers and Landowners in Southern Spain

Labourers and Landowners in Southern Spain

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Revivals

EconomicsLaborSpainish & Portuguese History

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 17, 2026

ISBN10: 1041339380
ISBN13: 9781041339380
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 17 2026
Pages: 352
Language: English

Latifundia are a characteristic feature of many underdeveloped agrarian economies. At the time when land reform was a burning issue for most of these countries, Labourers and Landowners in Southern Spain (originally published in 1971), a penetrating sociological and economic analysis of the Spanish experience was particularly opportune. The book examines the tensions within wage-labour latifundism and describes the value-systems of both labourers and landowners. Profit-minded landowners should prefer to become rentier landlords, but this would threaten the legitimacy of their position, which requires owner-operation. The labourers' behaviour conforms with their image of society: 'we who work' are in conflict with the landowning classes, but nevertheless 'we the poor must work'.

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