History GCSE
Mutual Aid Teams (MATs)
What Mutual Aid Teams (MATs) means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Mutual Aid Teams (MATs)
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Small groups of up to ten peasant households who shared tools, draft animals and labour while retaining private ownership of their land.
Topics that use Mutual Aid Teams (MATs)
- Option 32: Key topic 2: Economic policy, 1949–65 - 1 Early changes in agriculture, 1949–57 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Agrarian Reform Law
- Agricultural cooperation
- Economic planning and industrialisation
- Landlordism
- Mao Zedong's leadership and authority
- Redistribution
- Speak bitterness meetings
- State control and coercion
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