A methodology for class analysis : Agricultural investments and agrarian change in South Africa
Bunce, Brittany (University of Sheffield. Institute for Global Sustainable Development)

Date:	2023
Abstract:	This paper presents a class-analytic approach, which combines a "labour exploitation criterion" with class typologies developed for the South African context and the author's additions. The labour exploitation criterion distinguishes between rural classes based on the degree to which one employs others, works for others, or works for oneself. I combine the principal indicator of "labour exploitation" with the income contributions of social grants, ownership of farming assets and livestock, and the contribution of agricultural production to simple or expanded reproduction. Debates around class formation are explored in the context of a comparative analysis of two joint venture (JV) dairy farms, located in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, which involve residents as both landowners and workers. A class-analytic approach illuminates the emerging agrarian class structure that a JV-type intervention both reflects and in turn conditions, in dialectical fashion, with important implications for debates around agrarian change in South Africa.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Agrarian change ; Agricultural investments ; Class dynamics ; Joint ventures ; Social differentiation ; South Africa ; SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth ; SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
Published in:	Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 23, Issue 2 (April 2023) , p. 404-432, ISSN 1471-0366

DOI: 10.1111/joac.12505

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