Overview

Since its inception, Development Studies has tended to restrict its critical enquiries to nations in the 'Third World.' The field's important studies of labor 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. The reviews, review essays, and essays collected here examine these issues that are now relevant to metropolitan capitalism, as well as their political and ideological effects and implications

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Author:   Tom Brass
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Volume:   102
ISBN:  

9781608469284

ISBN 10:   160846928
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   17 July 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ... ix Introduction: Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies ... 1 Part 1: Reviews 1 Reinventing India? ... 33 2 Saints and Sinners ... 44 3 Seeing Ghosts ... 51 4 Brief Encounters with Class ... 56 5 Interns Interned ... 59 6 Marxist Academics and Liberal Hypocrisy ... 62 7 Backing into the Limelight ... 68 8 A Marxist Defence of Marxist Theory ... 73 9 Houellebecq, Anthropologist? ... 77 Part 2: Review Essays 10 The Struggle of/(over) Post-emancipation Rural Labour (‘At Their Perfect Command’?) ... 85 11 Shifts and Stasis in Development Studies ... 106 12 Zomia, or a Postmodern History of Nowhere ... 140 13 The Populist Drift of Global Labour History ... 157 Part 3: Essays 14 The Sabotage of Anthropology and the Anthropologist as Saboteur ... 181 15 How Agrarian Cooperatives Fail: Lessons from 1970s Peru ... 192 16 Capitalism Bonded Labour in India: Reinterpreting Recent (Re-)Interpretations ... 239 17 The Unsaying of Marxism: Capitalist Accumulation and Unfreedom ... 292 18 Academia as Mode of Seduction, or the Elephant in the Socialist Room ... 312 19 The Industrial Reserve Army: What’s Not to Like? ... 354 Bibliography ... 385 Author Index ... 425 Subject Index ... 433

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Tom Brass, D.Phil (1982) formerly lectured in the SPS Faculty at Cambridge University and directed studies for Queens' College. He edited The Journal of Peasant Studies for almost two decades, and has published extensively on agrarian issues and rural labour relations, including Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth (Brill, 2014).

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