The penetration of capitalism: a West African case study

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Title:	The penetration of capitalism: a West African case study
Author:	Vercruijsse, Émile
Year:	1984
Pages:	180
Language:	English
City of publisher:	London
Publisher:	Zed Books
ISBN:	0862321174; 0862321166
Geographic term:	Ghana
Subjects:	dual economy marine fisheries
Abstract:	An analysis of the contrasting ways in which partially restructured pre-capitalist forms of production exist in articulation with a more developed capitalist mode, based on a case study of canoe fishing off the coast of Ghana. The book begins with an outline of a theoretical framework within which precapitalist modes of production can fruitfully be reconstructed. In the next chapter the three transitional forms of production on canoe fishing observed are reconstructed and analyzed. The fourth chapter is concerned with the division between the fishermen's womenfolk who trade and the big wholesale dealers. The fifth chapter deals with the modern fisheries sector. In the last chapter the theoretical argument is resumed.