ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a study that is concerned mainly with the wage-earner; it will be useful to consider the alternatives open to the native, and the effect that these may have on the labour market. It is naturally primarily essential for land to be available for the growing of economic crops; if the native has already reached the stage where he has no access to the necessary fields, he loses the alternative and is to this extent reduced to the 'wage-slave' position. It is often assumed that economic produce tends to exclude wage-earning, and that a tribe finding itself in a position to secure an adequate amount of money from its crops will take no steps to earn wages. Examination shows that this is by no means always the case; instances are frequent where natives will plant a crop intended for sale, go away to work for a while, and return to market their produce.
