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Ingrid Schraner

Name: Ingrid Schraner

Course: PhD;ECON

Department: Department of Economics

Staff Supervisor: A/Prof Melanie Beresford

Thesis Title

Vietnamese state farm workers as family farmers: a revised subsumption approach. (Awarded 2002)

Abstract

Demonstrates how the process by which state farm workers became family farmers during the transition to a market economy helped to ensure the transfer of surplus value and to sustain the capital accumulation of banks and downstream users of the farm’s output. In particular, the thesis shows how the profitability of production was restored by the elimination of wage payments and forcing family farmers to rely on the unpaid labour of women and other family members in order to survive.