ANTH 1031 Lecture 11: Anthropology 1031 - Nov. 26th, 14.docx
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), it didn"t impact their lives, in 1930s a crop called sisal was brought to them by the government (primary use is to make rope) and so some adopted it as a small cash crop to sell it, wwii (1939 45) the need for rope expanded and the biggest hemp producers were overrun by the japanese (philippines), got raw sisal to make their rope ( green gold ), so small holders (small plots of land) started just growing sisal to make money, sisal took four years to be able to harvest so the war ended and the price for sisal went back down and it was difficult to get sisal out of their land so they became proletariat (workers sell body for labor), they could only sell labor to those who made sisal, economy of scale (what is often not of economic possibility in small scale can be viable in large scale)
