{"product_id":"labour-markets-identities-controversies-reviews-and-essays-1982-2016-9781608469284","title":"Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince its inception, Development Studies has tended to restrict its critical enquiries to nations in the 'Third World.' The field's important studies of labour markets, who circulates within them, and the controversies such issues generate, have hitherto been confined 'lesser developed' societies. In this important collection, drawing from key texts over the course Tom Brass's career, these concerns are deftly deployed to examine how these same phenomena affect metropolitan capitalist countries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements ... ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies ... 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 Reinventing India? ... 33\u003cbr\u003e 2 Saints and Sinners ... 44\u003cbr\u003e 3 Seeing Ghosts ... 51\u003cbr\u003e 4 Brief Encounters with Class ... 56\u003cbr\u003e 5 Interns Interned ... 59\u003cbr\u003e 6 Marxist Academics and Liberal Hypocrisy ... 62\u003cbr\u003e 7 Backing into the Limelight ... 68\u003cbr\u003e 8 A Marxist Defence of Marxist Theory ... 73\u003cbr\u003e 9 Houellebecq, Anthropologist? ... 77\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Review Essays\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 10 The Struggle of\/(over) Post-emancipation Rural Labour \u003cem\u003e(‘At Their Perfect Command’?)\u003c\/em\u003e ... 85\u003cbr\u003e 11 Shifts and Stasis in Development Studies ... 106\u003cbr\u003e 12 Zomia, or a Postmodern History of Nowhere ... 140\u003cbr\u003e 13 The Populist Drift of Global Labour History ... 157\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Essays\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 14 The Sabotage of Anthropology and the Anthropologist as Saboteur ... 181\u003cbr\u003e 15 How Agrarian Cooperatives Fail: Lessons from 1970s Peru ... 192\u003cbr\u003e 16 Capitalism Bonded Labour in India: Reinterpreting Recent (Re-)Interpretations ... 239\u003cbr\u003e 17 The Unsaying of Marxism: Capitalist Accumulation and Unfreedom ... 292\u003cbr\u003e 18 Academia as Mode of Seduction, or the Elephant in the Socialist Room ... 312\u003cbr\u003e 19 The Industrial Reserve Army: What’s Not to Like? ... 354\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography ... 385\u003cbr\u003e Author Index ... 425\u003cbr\u003e Subject Index ... 433\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359722242391,"sku":"9781608469284","price":29.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781608469284.jpg?v=1754125520","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/labour-markets-identities-controversies-reviews-and-essays-1982-2016-9781608469284","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}