Canadian agriculture: capitalist or petit bourgeois?
- 1 August 1987
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie
- Vol. 24 (3) , 358-373
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-618x.1987.tb01101.x
Abstract
Dans cet article, nous proposons une vision particuliere de I'agriculture capitaliste et petite‐bourgeoisie, et nous Ctudions la nature complexe du developpement capitaliste de I'agriculture au Canada. Une analyse des donnees des recensements canadiens indique qu'il n'y a pas de modde gCneral de dCveloppement capitaliste applicable a tous les types d'agricultures. On peut dkmontrer que des entreprises capitalistes prennent contrde de certains types de production sp6cialisCe, tandis que d'autres continuent d'itre dominCs par des producteurs familiaux petits‐bourgeois. Mais meme la ou les fermes petitesbourgeoises restent viables, elles font I'expPrience d'une differenciation interne notable.This paper proposes a particular conception of capitalist and petit bourgeois farming and examines the complex nature of capitalist development in Canadian agriculture. An analysis of Canadian Census data indicates that there is no general pattern of capitalist development applicable to all types of farming. I t is demonstrated that certain types of specialized production are being taken over by capitalist enterprises, while other types of specialized farms continue to be dominated by petit bourgeois household producers. Even where petit bourgeois farms remain viable, they are experiencing a marked internal differentiation.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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