Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 156)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 156)

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Control of the Means of Production
If we consider economic control of the labour process under
sharecropping, we find that real subsumption of the labour
process to landlords' control has not occurred. The
fundamental ability of the landlord to immediately direct and
control the labour process in all its elements in minutely
rationalised detail, which is normally associated with
advanced forms of mechanisation, is not an operative aspect
of sharecropping. This becomes clear if we break the labour
Process down into its constituent elements and analyse them
in terms of economic possession or real economic control.
Economic possession of the sharecropper's and her/his
family's labour resides directly in the hands of the tenant.
The sharecropper allots the specific quantities of labour
time to the different jobs in the production process. This
allotment is, of course, subject to ecological~agronomic
constraints on labour activity, but this in no way diminishes
the fact that the tenant exercises "managerial authority”
over labour. This managerial authority is invested in the
patriarchal and hierachical ideologies which structure the
sexual division of labour in the peasant household. The
landlord does not spend enough time on the farm, either
her/himself or through an agent, to direct and control labour
activity. The landlords generally visit their tenants' farms
infrequently during the agricultural season and only spend a
significant amount of time there around the harvest season.
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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production

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Alex Pollock

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