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production and division of labor in a West Indian peasant community
Author(s) -
BERLEANTSCHILLER RIVA
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1977.4.2.02a00030
Subject(s) - subsistence agriculture , peasant , division of labour , cash , production (economics) , cash crop , social organization , labor relations , economic growth , business , economics , labour economics , sociology , geography , agriculture , market economy , social science , finance , archaeology , macroeconomics
Subsistence and cash production on the West Indian island of Barbuda fall into two organizational categories: that for which household personnel is sufficient and that for which personnel from different households must organize into a cooperative team. This difference in productive organization is associated with exclusive areas of social and economic responsibility divided between men and women, although physical labor sometimes overlaps. Underlying the organization of production and hence the sexual distinction of roles, are the productive capabilities of the landscape and the customary system of land tenure that permits its most efficient use.