| | Arguing for a class analysis which tries to discover, the dynamic of a society's relations of exploitation rather than simply provide a classification of 'strata' , Vercruijsse analyses the forms of production involved in canoe fishing as compared with peasant fanning in Ghana. In the former case, the complexity of relations between boat-owners, net owners and fishermen-labourers and the system of remuneration in kind hide a silent class struggle between fishermen-labourers and boat and net owners. The basis for the open struggle is being laid by the expansion of large scale fishing with the increasing separation of fishermen-labourers from the means of production. In comparison, class formation in the sense of the alienation of peasants from the land has scarcely begun though development of land tenancy and wage labour is well under way. |
