Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 173)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 173)

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Apart from the farmer owning her/his own land outright,
rentier relations are generally less immediately exploitative
of the peasant household than the sharecropping land tenure
relationship. Moreover, we should note that the real extent
of rentierism in the region is less than the figures show
since the biggest rentier landlord in the region is the
Israeli Department of Absentee Property which collects
nominal rents from farmers, particulary in Zbeidat, for land
over which the actual legal categorisation is in dispute.
III. SMALLHOLDING: A PETTY COMMODITY MODE OF PRODUCTION.
Smallholding is the next most prominent form of land tenure
arrangement in the Jordan Valley after sharecropping. Yet of
the 610 individual tenures found in the region, smallholding
accounts for only 16% Of these (see Table 27).
Ownership of the Means of Production
In smallholding forms of production the legal ownership of
the means of production is almost wholly the property of the
smallholding household. Smallholders, by definition, own the
land which they work and they normally hold title deeds to
this land. They either privately own or privately purchase
their farm water supply. They have direct ownership of their
objects of labour and the least costly means of production
such as seeds/seedlings, insecticides, pesticides, drip-—
irrigation equipment, plastic sheeting, etc. However, like
both sharecroppers and cash tenants, the majority of
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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production

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Alex Pollock

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