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Author Brass, Tom

Title Labour markets, identities, controversies : reviews and essays 1982-2016 / by Tom Brass
Published Leiden : Brill, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (x, 443 pages)
Series Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; v. 102
Studies in critical social sciences.
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
Summary 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 has turned its attention to how these same phenomena affect metropolitan capitalist nations. For this reason, the reviews, review essays and essays collected in this book extend from a consideration of issues such as the free/unfree labour distinction and non-class identity, along with their political and ideological effects and implications, as these have been reproduced in and examined in relation to Third World contexts, to similar issues now evident in metropolitan capitalism
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Subject Labor market.
Labor -- History -- 21st century
Employment (Economic theory)
employing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Labor
Labor market
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004337091
9004337091