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Rural Capitalist Development in The Jordan Valley, Paperback / softback Book

Rural Capitalist Development in The Jordan Valley Paperback / softback

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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.

From 1950 onwards this development was strongly influenced by a sudden population increase (Palestinian refugees), the East Ghor irrigation system, the strong promotion of vegetable production and new technologies and institutions.

Share cropping became the dominant feature of agrarian relations, but during the last decades international migrant labour expanded the wage labour system. Some types of production organization, such as the small-owner-family-labour system, proved to be more successful than others, but with the current difficult economic situation the debt trap is felt by many of these small owners. The book is important for the understanding of the social and economic history of the region, showing the dynamics of social change, but also because of its thorough analysis of the current situation, assessing theoretical models and predicting developments in a rapidly changing agricultural world. Mohamed Fayez Tarawneh is Associate Professor at Yarmouk University, specialized in the Anthropology of development and particularly interested in rural development and social change.

Furthermore, he is the general manager of the Hashemite Fund for the Development of Jordan Badia.

Some of his major publications concern a historical and social geographic study of the Jordanian town and countryside of Kerak, the participatory development in Wadi Araba and Poverty in Jordan.

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