Title:	Rural Protest: Peasant Movements and Social Change
Authors:	HENRY A. LANDSBERGER
Keywords:	Social Change
Issue Date:	1974
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	UNTIL quite recently, most of the world's workers have been peasants. It was, however, possible during the first half of the twentieth century largely to ignore that fact. Attention tends to focus upon what is changing in societies, and what claimed attention then was the spread of industrialism, its consequences for industrial workers, and the progress and effects of trade unionism in ameliorating their conditions. During the second half of our century, more attention is being given to peasant populations. The peasantry moves towards the centre of the stage of world history at the very time when the traditional rural way oflife is in decline and the peasant economy is shrinking. Violence has often accompanied these changes. The great twentieth-century revolutions have been peasant-based. While the wars of the first half of the twentieth century were fought in highly industrialised countries, those of the second half of this century have been fought in areas of peasant population. The major social and political issues of Third World countries now arise from the continuing transformation of the peasantry, whether into a modem workforce or into a mass of onintegrated, poverty-ridden urban slum-dwellers. The way in which this transformation is carried out affects the prospects for peace.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/57319
ISBN:	978-1-349-01612-9
Appears in Collections:	Rural Development Studies

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