Labour markets, identities, controversies : reviews and essays 1982-2016

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

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 h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brass, Tom
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2017.
Series:Studies in critical social sciences.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Labor market.
Labor > History > 21st century.
Employment (Economic theory)
employing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
Labor
Labor market
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies: Reviews and Essays, 1982-2016; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies; Part 1: Reviews; 1 Reinventing India?; 2 Saints and Sinners; 3 Seeing Ghosts; 4 Brief Encounters with Class; 5 Interns Interned; 6 Marxist Academics and Liberal Hypocrisy; 7 Backing into the Limelight; 8 A Marxist Defence of Marxist Theory; 9 Houellebecq, Anthropologist?; Part 2: Review Essays; 10 The Struggle of/(over) Post-emancipation Rural Labour: ('At Their Perfect Command'?).
  • 11 Shifts and Stasis in Development Studies12 Zomia, or a Postmodern History of Nowhere; 13 The Populist Drift of Global Labour History; Part 3: Essays; 14 The Sabotage of Anthropology and the Anthropologist as Saboteur; 15 How Agrarian Cooperatives Fail: Lessons from 1970s Peru; 16 Capitalism Bonded Labour in India: Reinterpreting Recent (Re- ) Interpretations; 17 The Unsaying of Marxism: Capitalist Accumulation and Unfreedom; 18 Academia as Mode of Seduction, or the Elephant in the Socialist Room; 19 The Industrial Reserve Army: What's Not to Like?; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index.

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