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The transformation of rural labour systems in colonial and post-colonial northern Nigeria. In: Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 13 (1986) 4: 258-271

ABSTRACT & RÉSUMÉ & ZUSAMMENFASSUNG: The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class formation. A case study of the develop¬ment of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better qualitative and quantitative idea of this interrelation. After an analysis of the socio-economic effects of forced and bonded labour during colonial times, the articulation of different systems of family and non-family labour in present-day Nupeland has been investigat…

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