Rural Capitalist Development in The Jordan Valley : the case of Deir Alla - The Rise and Demise of Social Groups.

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Chapter 1; Introduction; 1.1 The Problem; 1.2 Some Theoretical Considerations; 1.3 The Study Location; 1.3.1 Geographical and Ecological Setting; 1.4 Aims and Objectives; 1.5 Historical Background; 1.6 Fieldwork; 1.6.1 Research Methods; Chapter 2; Patterns of Land Ownership in the Jordan Valley; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Trans-Jordan under Ottoman Rule; 2.2.1 Land Distribution; 2.2.2 Land Concentration in the Period 1858-1930s in Deir Alla; 2.3 The Dissolution of the mushac System: The Emergence of Private Property:; 2.3.1 The Land Settlement of 1933.

2.4 The Transition Period: The Land Reform Programme of the 1960sChapter 3; The "Harrath" Economy -- A Subsistence Economy; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Old Irrigation System; 3.3 "Harrath" as a Social Relation of Production; 3.3.1 Clan as a Social Unit: Social Stratification between Different Clans; 3.4 Social Differentiation within the Territory; 3.4.1 The Process of Labour; 3.4.2 Harrath Social Relation of Production: A Common Perspective; 3.5 Conclusion; Chapter 4; The demise of the harrath economy; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Rise of a New Group of Landowners; 4.3 The Palestinian Exodus.

4.4 USAID Involvement in the Jordan Valley4.5 Credit Mechanisms; 4.5.1 The Transition in Credit Sources; 4.5.2 Institutional Sources of Credit; 4.5.3 The Debt Trap; 4.6 Government Agricultural Policies; 4.6.1 Al-Namat al-Zeracy; 4.6.2 Agro-Industry; 4.7 Jordan Valley Authority (JVA); 4.8 Conclusion; Chapter 5; The Social Organizations of Production; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Organization of Wage Labour; 5.2.1 Female Wage Labour; 5.2.2 Arab Migrant Wage Labour Organization; 5.3 Absentee-Tenancy: Sharecropping-Tenancy Relations; 5.4 Small Owner Intensive-Capital Organization.

5.5 Sharecropping Organization: International Migrant Labour5.6 Family-Labour Organization; 5.6.1 Notes on the Cost/Benefit Analyses; 5.7 Absentee Landlordism (Pyramid Bayarah type of Organization); 5.8 Merchants; 5.8.1 Merchants of the Basic Production Inputs; 5.8.2 Commissioners; Chapter 6; Synthesis; Chapter 7; Deir Alla, 11 years after; 7.1 Tenancy; 7.2 Bayarah; 7.3 Family-Labour Farms; 7.4 Pakistani; 7.5 Egyptians; 7.6 Agricultural Engineers Cooperatives; 7.8 New Deterioration; 7.9 Predictions; Appendices; Bibliography; About the author; Arabic Summary; Preface.

The case of Deir Alla is a social and economic case study of developing Third World agriculture. The study is based upon historical sources, contemporary public information with statistics, and field work in the Jordanian village of Deir Alla. This fieldwork took place in 1986 and a report was prepared in 1989. For this publication additional field work in 1997 accounted for the rapidly changing social and economic situation. The Ottoman feudal system, with the local harrath (ploughman) economy, changed gradually to private ownership since 1936, affecting the social relations of production. Fro.

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