Towards a comparative political economy of unfree labour : case studies and debates / Tom Brass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brass, Tom, 1946- author.

Series:

Library of peasant studies ; no. 16.

The library of peasant studies, 1462-219X ; number 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasants--India.

Peasants.

Peasants--Peru.

Agricultural laborers--India.

Agricultural laborers.

Agricultural laborers--Peru.

Indentured servants--India.

Indentured servants.

Indentured servants--Peru.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Towards a Definition of Bonded Labour; 1.1 Debt Bondage, Decommodification and Unfreedom; 1.2 Bonded Labour as Deproletarianization; 1.3 What Bonded Labour Is Not; 1.4 Methodological Considerations; 1.5 Unfreedom, the Law and the State; 1.6 Coercion and Enforcement; 1.7 Intergenerational Debt Transfers and Unfreedom; 1.8 Kinship, Migration and Unfreedom; 1.9 Work Intensity, Wage Levels and Unfreedom; 1.10 Conclusion; Notes; PART I - Case Studies; 2 Bonded Labour in Eastern Peru

2.1 Debt Bondage in Pre-Reform La Convención2.2 Debt Bondage, Labour Rent and Class Struggle; 2.3 Debt Bondage, Feudalism and Nationalism; 2.4 Debt Bondage in Post-Reform La Convención; 2.5 Patterns/Results of Worker Indebtedness; 2.6 Actual/Fictive Kinship and the Discourse of 'Reciprocity'; 2.7 Actual/Fictive Kinship, Debt Enforcement and Local Workers; 2.8 Actual/Fictive Kinship, Debt Enforcement and Migration; 2.9 Bonded Labour and Agrarian Capitalist Restructuring; 2.10 Conclusion; Notes; 3 Bonded Labour in Northwestern India; 3.1 Pre-Green Revolution Labour Attachment

3.2 Post-Green Revolution Labour Attachment3.3 Attached Labour and Commercial Agriculture; 3.4 Capitalism, Unfree Labour and Migration in Punjab; 3.5 Bonded Labour and Capitalist Restructuring in Punjab; 3.6 Village A, Karnal District, Haryana; 3.7 Village B, Karnal District, Haryana; 3.8 Village C, Rohtak District, Haryana; 3.9 Village D, Rohtak District, Haryana; 3.10 Village E, Rohtak District, Haryana; 3.11 Conclusion; Notes; 4 Bonded Labour in Northeastern India; 4.1 Feudalism, Capitalism and Debt Bondage in Bihar; 4.2 Bonded Labour and Migration in Bihar

4.3 Debt Bondage and Sharecropping in Bihar4.4 Bonded Labour in Nalanda District, Bihar; 4.5 Village A, Nalanda District; 4.6 Village B, Nalanda District; 4.7 Village C, Nalanda District; 4.8 Bonded Labour in Purnia District, Bihar; 4.9 Unfreedom, Gender and Migration in Purnia District; 4.10 Conclusion; Notes; PART II - Debates; 5 Neoclassical and Marxist Approaches to Capitalism and Unfree Labour; 5.1 Neoclassical Economic Historiography and Unfree Labour; 5.2 Neoclassical Economic Historiography, Capitalism and 'Consent'; 5.3 Marxism, Free Labour and Capitalism

5.4 Marxism and Unfree Labour5.5 Unfree Labour and the Mode of Production Debate; 5.6 Unfree Labour and the 'Semi-Feudal' Thesis; 5.7 Unfree Labour and Agrarian Transformation; 5.8 Unfreedom and Labour Availability; 5.9 The Recent History of Deproletarianization; 5.10 Deproletarianization and Capitalist Profitability; 5.11 Deproletarianization and Class Struggle; 5.12 Conclusion; Notes; 6 The Latin American Enganche System; 6.1 Unfree Labour and Legislative Abolition; 6.2 Debt Peonage and Coercion; 6.3 Debt Peonage as Deception; 6.4 Debt Peonage as Economic Security

6.5 Debt Peonage as Reverse Bondage

Notes:

First published 1999 by Frank Cass Publishers.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 26, 2016).

ISBN:

1-317-82736-8

1-315-82193-1

1-317-82735-X

9781315821931

OCLC:

933433428