The reviews, review essays and essays collected in this book examine the shift of development studies debate about labour markets and identity from the Third World to how they affect metropolitan capitalist nations.
The reviews, review essays and essays collected in this book examine the shift of development studies debate about labour markets and identity from the Third World to how they affect metropolitan capitalist nations.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Tom Brass, D.Phil (1982) formerly lectured in the SPS Faculty at Cambridge University and directed studies for Queens' College. He edited The Journal of Peasant Studies for almost two decades, and has published extensively on agrarian issues and rural labour relations, including Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth (Brill, 2014).
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Acknowledgements ... ix Introduction: Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies ... 1 Part 1: Reviews 1 Reinventing India? ... 33 2 Saints and Sinners ... 44 3 Seeing Ghosts ... 51 4 Brief Encounters with Class ... 56 5 Interns Interned ... 59 6 Marxist Academics and Liberal Hypocrisy ... 62 7 Backing into the Limelight ... 68 8 A Marxist Defence of Marxist Theory ... 73 9 Houellebecq, Anthropologist? ... 77 Part 2: Review Essays 10 The Struggle of/(over) Post-emancipation Rural Labour (‘At Their Perfect Command’?) ... 85 11 Shifts and Stasis in Development Studies ... 106 12 Zomia, or a Postmodern History of Nowhere ... 140 13 The Populist Drift of Global Labour History ... 157 Part 3: Essays 14 The Sabotage of Anthropology and the Anthropologist as Saboteur ... 181 15 How Agrarian Cooperatives Fail: Lessons from 1970s Peru ... 192 16 Capitalism Bonded Labour in India: Reinterpreting Recent (Re-)Interpretations ... 239 17 The Unsaying of Marxism: Capitalist Accumulation and Unfreedom ... 292 18 Academia as Mode of Seduction, or the Elephant in the Socialist Room ... 312 19 The Industrial Reserve Army: What’s Not to Like? ... 354 Bibliography ... 385 Author Index ... 425 Subject Index ... 433
Acknowledgements ... ix Introduction: Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies ... 1 Part 1: Reviews 1 Reinventing India? ... 33 2 Saints and Sinners ... 44 3 Seeing Ghosts ... 51 4 Brief Encounters with Class ... 56 5 Interns Interned ... 59 6 Marxist Academics and Liberal Hypocrisy ... 62 7 Backing into the Limelight ... 68 8 A Marxist Defence of Marxist Theory ... 73 9 Houellebecq, Anthropologist? ... 77 Part 2: Review Essays 10 The Struggle of/(over) Post-emancipation Rural Labour (‘At Their Perfect Command’?) ... 85 11 Shifts and Stasis in Development Studies ... 106 12 Zomia, or a Postmodern History of Nowhere ... 140 13 The Populist Drift of Global Labour History ... 157 Part 3: Essays 14 The Sabotage of Anthropology and the Anthropologist as Saboteur ... 181 15 How Agrarian Cooperatives Fail: Lessons from 1970s Peru ... 192 16 Capitalism Bonded Labour in India: Reinterpreting Recent (Re-)Interpretations ... 239 17 The Unsaying of Marxism: Capitalist Accumulation and Unfreedom ... 292 18 Academia as Mode of Seduction, or the Elephant in the Socialist Room ... 312 19 The Industrial Reserve Army: What’s Not to Like? ... 354 Bibliography ... 385 Author Index ... 425 Subject Index ... 433
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