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Mahfoud Bennoune

Mahfoud Bennoune (1936-2004) was a long-time contributing editor and author of numerous books and articles on North Africa.

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Origins of the Algerian Proletariat

In the first part of this essay, not included here, Bennoune notes that in pre-colonial Algeria’s rural sector land was the basic factor of production, consisting of four predominant subsistence activities: agriculture, animal husbandry, fruit tree plantations and horticulture. Ecological conditions

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