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Cooperation, Credit and Social Integration

In: The State and Agrarian Change in Zimbabwe’s Communal Areas

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  • Michael Drinkwater

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It has been argued that an analysis of social change ideally requires a theoretical framework which can be used to analyse the scope that people, as individuals or part of social collectivities, have to make their own world, within the context of the structural constraints they face. The unit of analysis in the previous chapter was the household. It was shown that even leading farmers are constrained in their ability to enhance the viability of their production by the resource limitations they experience. If individual households by themselves cannot significantly improve their positions, then the onus falls upon the organisations that structure communal area societies. Accordingly, my concern in the empirical component of this chapter is to analyse the capacity of the two societies I worked in for effective, coordinated action at this supra-household level.

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  • Michael Drinkwater, 1991. "Cooperation, Credit and Social Integration," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The State and Agrarian Change in Zimbabwe’s Communal Areas, chapter 6, pages 192-230, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11780-2_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11780-2_6
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