The creation of the Algerian wine industry, following the phylloxera catastrophe in France, had only added to the agricultural imbalance. Although it had come to account for half of Algeria’s exports to France and had granted considerable economic power to the wine lobby (as personified by Senator Borgeaud), it hardly helped the economic predicament of the Muslims, providing him with but little steady work, and producing a crop which did not nourish him and offended his religion.

XREF: Connects to broader patterns of settler-colonial economies prioritizing export cash crops over indigenous subsistence, comparable to plantation economies elsewhere.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 184