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Abstract
The following Part II of this paper is devoted to the diversity of peasant economies, focusing on the typical patterns of change included under the umbrella term of ‘modernisation’. It reviews in these terms the aspects of the peasant economy outlined in Part I. The final Part III turns to agrarian policies and the impact of state intervention on peasant economies. It discusses the aims of such interventions i.e. land reform and the major programmes of reconstruction and transition in peasant economies today: ‘betting on the strong’, collectivisation, and the transformation of the peasant into a ‘modern’ farmer.
Notes
Professor of Sociology. University of Manchester, currently Visiting Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford. Part I of this article appeared in the Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 1 No. 1.
