Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour

Case Studies and Debates
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-7146-4498-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brass, Tom

Brass, Dr Tom

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 30, No. 4

"Make no mistake. This is some book. One of the best I have read for some time. The challenge of this book should be read, studied and appreciated by all scholars of labour, migration or development."

"a very important contribution to contemporary and historical studies of workers, and class relations into which they are inserted and against which many of them struggle"

International Review of Social History

Über Autor(innen)

Brass, Dr Tom; Brass, Tom