Peasant Pedlars and Professional Traders
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- Publisher:
- ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
- Publication date:
- October 2015
- January 1987
- ISBN:
- 9789814379083
- 9789971988951
- 9789971988784
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- Weight & Pages:
- 00kg,
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- Weight & Pages:
- 00kg,
- Subjects:
- Organisational Sociology, Sociology
- Series:
- Books and Monographs
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Book description
Trading in the rural areas of developing countries provides a valuable source of cash income, especially for small and landless peasants. In a case study of the village of Kakas in the province of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, the authors depict the colourful market scene of a village pasar, the selling and buying strategies of traders and customers, and the characteristics of supply and demand. They also shed light on the often-neglected non-economic aspects of the pasar, such as its value for local communication and its role in the formation of a new sense of local identity and solidarity. By means of studies of trader households this book also scrutinizes how rural households combine petty trade with other income-generating activities such as cash-cropping, subsistence production, wage labour, and even work as a civil servant. The authors also show how petty trade, though highly efficient, may well be an indicator of underdevelopment.
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