The Natal Sugar Industry, 1849–1905: An Interpretative Essay
The Natal Sugar Industry, 1849–1905: An Interpretative Essay
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纳塔尔制糖业，1849-1905 年：一篇阐释性文章
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10.1017/s0021853700021332
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1982
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P. Richardson
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本文试图考察纳塔尔制糖业从 1840 年代末开始直至 1905 年祖鲁兰开放供白人定居为止的资本积累基础。本文在区域糖业市场发展和国际贸易模式转变的背景下追溯了殖民地种植园生产的出现。它还试图阐明这一体系的弱点，这些弱点在从 1860 年代末一直持续到世纪之交的长期危机中削弱并最终摧毁了它。最后，它分析了这个重建行业中出现的生产关系，确定了被称为“磨坊主兼种植园主”的大型生产单位，这些单位以垄断控制的形式将中央磨坊活动和甘蔗生产的扩展领域结合起来，这种垄断控制至今仍然深刻地影响着该行业。
This paper has sought to examine the basis of capital accumulation in the Natal sugar industry from its beginnings in the late 1840s until the opening of Zululand for white settlement in 1905. It has traced the emergence of plantation production in the colony in the context of developments within the regional sugar market and the shifting patterns of the international trade. It has also sought to elucidate the weaknesses of this system which undermined and finally destroyed it in an extended crisis which lasted from the late 1860s until the turn of the century. Finally it has analysed the productive relations which emerged within this reconstructed industry, identifying the large units of production known as the miller-cum-planter concerns which combined central milling activities and extended areas of cane production in a form of monopolistic control which still profoundly affects the industry today.