TY - BOOK AU - Torres Mejia,Patricia TI - Peasants, merchants, & politicians in tobacco production: Philippine social relations in a global economy SN - 9715502822 AV - HD9146.P5 T67 2000 U1 - 338.17371 PY - 2000/// CY - Quezon City PB - Ateneo de Manila University Press KW - Tobacco industry KW - Philippines KW - Social aspects KW - Peasants KW - Economic conditions KW - 1946- N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-225) and index; Machine generated contents note: 1 Ilokano Tobacco Society -- Literature on Filipino Peasantry -- The Research Area as a Social Field -- The Social Process of Production -- Physiography and Use of the Land, -- Social Groupings -- Thirty Years of Virginia Tobacco -- 2 Land and Technology -- Agricultural Production -- The Importance of Virginia Tobacco Production -- 3 Ethnic Integration and Distinction among Peasants -- Land-Use Relationships. -- Residential Neighborhoods, -- Lowland and Highland Peasants -- Status and Social Position from Below -- 4 Peasants' Agricultural Resources and Relationships -- Agricultural Activities. -- "Ammoyo" Reciprocity -- Agricultural Resources -- 5 Tobacco Merchants -- Candon as Center of Tobacco Trade -- Integration and Participation in Traae -- Social Position -- Credit and Trade. -- Trade and the Control of Production. -- 6 Political Representatives and Bureaucrats. -- Economic and Political Power -- Bureaucracy and Social Control -- Patron-Client Relations -- Political Factions -- 7 Tobacco Society in the Ilocos and Beyond. -- Control of Resources. -- Social and Economic Expectations -- Candon Fiesta as Microcosm -- State Intervention -- Market Control -- Conflictive Interests and Necessary Alliances UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/99504367.html ER -