1944: (Proletarianization and the Fundamental Shift in Identity — This Vulnerability Exacerbating What Haitian Sociologist Alex Dupuy Explains as Post-US Occ…

1944: (Proletarianization and the Fundamental Shift in Identity — This Vulnerability Exacerbating What Haitian Sociologist Alex Dupuy Explains as Post-US Occupation Models That “Unleashed a Process of Proletarianization” in Which Large Mono-Crop Export Farming and Mining Projects Disrupted Local Small-Scale Farming — This Being Not Just a Financial Crisis but a Fundamental Shift in Identity as Landed or Proto-Peasants, for Young Women Without Access to Land the Shift Meaning They Could Be Sent to Urban Centers for Domestic Labor Swelling Urban Population Numbers and Making Women Vulnerable): This vulnerability exacerbated what Haitian sociologist Alex Dupuy explains as the post-US occupation models that unleashed a process of proletarianization in which large mono-crop export farming and mining projects disrupted local, small-scale farming that allowed families to maintain their lives in spite of the growing powers of the state or strength of the merchant class. This was not just a financial crisis for some displaced peasants, a violence unto itself, but by definition this caused a fundamental shift in identity, as landed or proto-peasants. Specifically, for young women, without access to land, the shift in family resources meant that they could be sent to the urban centers to earn money for the family through small jobs and domestic labor, swelling the urban population numbers but also making women vulnerable — the girl who arrived in Port-au-Prince to work as a servant in an elite home was the end point of a chain that began with SHADA’s bulldozers clearing her family’s fruit trees.