Landless Workers and Rice Farmers: Peasant Subclasses Under Agrarian Reform in Two Philippine Villages

摘要

Share tenancy on rice farms in the Philippines was abolished in 1972 to provide more equitable income and land distribution to tillers of the soil. This study examines the benefits and burdens of land reform as perceived by three peasant subgroups - amortizing owners, permanent lessees, and landless workers in two villages, Abangay and Rajal Sur. Part I of the study focuses on the basic differences at the household level between landless workers and rice farmers. Discussed are the labor, income, and credit needs of one landless worker's family. Part II examines at the village level the formation of the three peasant subclasses mentioned above after initiation of agrarian reform.