Coffee Planters Workers And Wives: Class Conflict And Gender Relations On Sao Paulo Coffee Plantations

A combination of history and anthropology, analyzing the transition from slavery to sharecropping and from sharecropping to wage-labour in the coffee plantations of Sao Paulo.

It attempts to clarify both empirically and theoretically many of the issues in the debate over rural proletarization.;This study emphasizes the everyday forms of the rural workers resistance to exploitation.

In addition it addresses the subject of women workers and women's subordination.;Verena Stolcke is author of "Marriage, Class and Colour in 19th Century Cuba" and "The Journal of Peasant Studies".