The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 277)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 277)

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While no single index can capture class status with absolute
accuracy, we would suggest, that the use of outside labour [sic]
relative to the use of family labour, would be the most reliable single
index for categorizing the peasantry more precisely. . . . For a
cultivator, there can be two types of use of outside labor in
production: (a) direct hiring of others’ labour, (b) indirect
appropriation of others’ labour through leasing out land for rent.
Conversely these are the same two ways in which his labour may be
appropriated by others: (a) direct hiring out of family labour,
(b) indirect, through payment of rent for land leased in.'*
This is formulated as an empirical ratio termed the “labor-exploitation ratio”:
E=x/y, where x denotes the “net total use of outside labor (i.e., labor days hired
in minus labor days hired out) plus net labor days taken through rent (i.e., labor
days taken through rent minus labor days given through rent),” and y denotes
family labor days.
The inclusion of rent exploitation derives from the fact that in colonial and
semicolonial countries where there has been
very little growth of capitalist relations in rural areas, extraction of
precapitalist land rent was one of the major forms of exploitation not
only of the peasantry by landlords but also to some extent as
practiced by richer peasants vis-a-vis poorer peasants.'°
The extent of exploitation is measured by labor days, whether paid in kind or
money, as a share of gross output."
In the case of Palestine, we do not have detailed data comparable to
Patnaik’s data on India including labor days hired in or hired out nor on land
Patnaik, Class Differentiation, A84.
Patnaik, Peasant Class, 27-8.
lepatnaik, Class Differentiation, A84.
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