Much writing about agragarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations are archaic forms, destined to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. This text argues that the incidence of bonded labour is much greater than generally supposed, and that in certain situations rural employers prefer an unfree workforce.
Much writing about agragarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations are archaic forms, destined to be eliminated in the course of ca...
Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, post-modernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of otherness/difference lies the concept of and innate peasant-ness. In a variety of contextual-specific discursive forms, the old populism of the 1890s and the nationalism and fascism in Europe, America and Asia during the 1920s and 1930s were all informed by the agrarian myth. The post-modern new populism and the new right, both of which...
Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, post-modernism and the pol...
The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America.
The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia,...
Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, post-modernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of otherness/difference lies the concept of and innate peasant-ness. In a variety of contextual-specific discursive forms, the old populism of the 1890s and the nationalism and fascism in Europe, America and Asia during the 1920s and 1930s were all informed by the agrarian myth. The post-modern new populism and the new right, both of which...
Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, post-modernism and the pol...
The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America. Among the issues covered are the impact of globalization and neo-liberal economic policies on peasant economy and rural labour, the historical and contemporary nature of peasant/state relations, debates over Amazonian peasantries, forms taken by local/regional/national peasant ideology/agency, and political disputes over agrarian reform. Land still remains on the agenda of most Latin American peasants,...
The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia,...
Labor Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century sets as its task to assess the validity, in light of current economic development, of the epistemology structuring different historical interpretations that see unfree labor as incompatible with capitalism. Conventional wisdom holds that--regarding the opposition between capitalism and unfreedom--an unbroken continuity links Marxism to Adam Smith, Malthus, Mill, and Max Weber. Challenging this, Brass argues that Marx accepted that, where class struggle is global, capitalist producers employ workers who are unfree.
Labor Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century sets as its task to assess the validity, in light of current economic development, of the epist...
Using examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth. Essentializing rural identity, traditional culture and quotidian resistance, both aristocratic/plebeian and pastoral/Darwinian forms of agrarian myth discourse inform struggles waged 'from above' and 'from below', surfacing in peasant movements, film and travel writing. Film depictions of royalty, landowner and colonizer as disempowered, 'ordinary' or well-disposed towards 'those below', whose interests they share, underwrite populism and...
Using examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth.
