Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour: Case Studies and DebatesRoutledge, 2015 M12 22 - 360 pages Many 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. |
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Accordingly actual/fictive agrarian relations agricultural labourers and/or annual servants 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 con context contract Convencion Cotlear creditor-employer cultural debt bondage relation debt peonage discourse District 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 kinship labour attachment labour contractors labour market labour obligations labour process labour-power land landholders landless landlord Latin America latter loans Marxism migrants Nalanda District neoclassical economic payment permanent Peru plantation political poor peasants postmodern production relations proletarianization Pumia Punjab recruited regard relationship rich peasants Rudra rural labour seasonal semi-feudal sharecropping slavery slaves social Southern Agrarians subsistence guarantee surplus-value tenants thereby unfree labour unfree relations unfree workers unfreedom village workforce