labour control. The paper discusses to what extent land concentration in the southern province of colonial Malawi during the … early colonial period created specific institutions of labour control that determined agricultural growth on European … controlled tobacco farms. The paper concludes that the European farmers' control of labour was severely restricted due to African …

In this paper I use primary and secondary sources to quantify the role of tenant labour on settler farms in colonial … Africa, using Southern Rhodesia as a case in point. My findings show that the rise of wage labour did not mark the end of … labour tenancy, as has been assumed in previous literature. On the contrary, the two forms of labour co-existed. The results …

explanation is that the demand for children as labour is higher in newly established frontier regions compared to older and more …, acknowledging that the demand for family labour was not a function of its marginal productivity and that farmers reacted to … frontier population, responded to shrinking land availability by employing relatively more family labour, while the wealthiest …

The flexibility of slave labour as an economic institution has often been assumed as a given. In general, some capital … investment is necessary to retrain novice slaves but essentially they could be substituted for any other form of labour. This … paper refutes the claim of the flexibility of slave labour through employing a longitudinal study for the Graaff …

and Africans in the reserves was not only capital, but also labour intensity. NP farmers applied more labour … of their capacity to use their control over land to access additional labour through share-cropping and tenancy contracts. …

is more likely to emerge as a dominant form of labour. It states that in cases of land abundance and labour shortages the … labour and the role of slaves can only be understood in relation to a wide range of existing labour contracts. Once …. Capacity for surplus production was the key factor, but why slaves became a major form of labour was partly a consequence of …

accounts of Khoesan labour, this paper explores the effect of including Khoesan farm labour estimates in earlier calculations …