Labour markets, identities, controversies : reviews and essays 1982-2016 / by Tom Brass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brass, Tom.

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences 102.

Studies in critical social sciences, ISSN 1573-4234 ; v. 102

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor market.

Labor--History--21st century.

Labor.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (453 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

Debates about labour markets and the identity of those who, in an economic sense, circulate within them, together with the controversies such issues generate, have in the past been confined by development studies to the Third World. Now these same concerns have shifted, as the study of development has turned its attention to how these same phenomena affect metropolitan capitalist nations. For this reason, the book does not restrict the analysis of issues such as the free/unfree labour distinction and non-class identity to Third World contexts. The reviews, review essays and essays collected here also examine similar issues now evident in metropolitan capitalism, together with their political and ideological effects and implications.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies

Reinventing India?

Saints and Sinners

Seeing Ghosts

Brief Encounters with Class

Interns Interned

Marxist Academics and Liberal Hypocrisy

Backing into the Limelight

A Marxist Defence of Marxist Theory

Houellebecq, Anthropologist?

The Struggle of/(over) Post-emancipation Rural Labour (‘At Their Perfect Command’?)

Shifts and Stasis in Development Studies

Zomia, or a Postmodern History of Nowhere

The Populist Drift of Global Labour History

The Sabotage of Anthropology and the Anthropologist as Saboteur

How Agrarian Cooperatives Fail: Lessons from 1970s Peru

Capitalism Bonded Labour in India: Reinterpreting Recent (Re-) Interpretations

The Unsaying of Marxism: Capitalist Accumulation and Unfreedom

Academia as Mode of Seduction, or the Elephant in the Socialist Room

The Industrial Reserve Army: What’s Not to Like?

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

90-04-33709-1

OCLC:

970042532

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004337091 DOI