Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour: Case Studies and DebatesMany works about agragarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations are to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. This text argues that the incidence of bonded labour is greater than supposed, and that in certain situations rural employers prefer an unfree workforce. |
Contents
1 | 11 |
4 | 17 |
8 | 23 |
Acknowledgements | 30 |
Bonded Labour in Eastern Peru | 47 |
8 | 60 |
Bonded Labour in Northwestern India | 80 |
Bonded Labour in Northeastern India | 110 |
The Latin American Enganche System | 182 |
Attached Labour in India | 217 |
Unfree Labour Culture and Nationalism | 255 |
Conclusion | 295 |
| 305 | |
| 333 | |
| 341 | |
Neoclassical and Marxist Approaches to Capitalism | 145 |
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Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour: Case Studies and ... Tom Brass Limited preview - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
Accordingly agrarian relations agricultural labourers and/or annual servants argued argument attached labour attached workers Bardhan Bauer Bihar bonded labour borrowing Breman capital capitalist cash advances casual labourers casual workers cent Chapter claim class struggle coercion concept context contract Convención Cotlear creditor-employer cultural debt bondage debt bondage relation debt peonage discourse employers employment empowerment enforcement enganche system evidence example existence farmers fictive kinship fieldwork Fogel framework free labour free wage labour hacienda Harriss Haryana indebtedness kinsfolk La Convención labour attachment labour contractors labour market labour obligations labour process labour-power land landholders landless landlord Latin America latter loans Marxism Nalanda District neoclassical economic payment permanent Peru plantation political poor peasants postmodern production relations proletarianization Punjab Purnia District recruited regard relationship rich peasants Rudra rural labour seasonal semi-feudal sharecropping slavery slaves social subsistence guarantee tenants thereby unfree labour unfree relations unfree workers unfreedom village workforce
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