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. |
Contents
13 | 32 |
Bonded Labour in Eastern Peru | 47 |
6 | 57 |
Bonded Labour in Northwestern India | 80 |
Bonded Labour in Northeastern India | 110 |
80 | 123 |
Neoclassical and Marxist Approaches to Capitalism | 145 |
The Latin American Enganche System | 182 |
Attached Labour in India | 217 |
Unfree Labour Culture and Nationalism | 255 |
Conclusion | 295 |
Bibliography | 305 |
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