Land and labour relations in south-west Bangladesh
Subtitle: resources, power and conflict
By: Anjan Kumar Datta.
Contributors: Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press in association with Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Farm tenancy -- Bangladesh.; Land reform -- Bangladesh.; Agricultural laborers -- Government policy -- Bangladesh.; Agriculture and state -- Bangladesh.
Description: The book documents the ambiguities and limitations of applying rigid theoretical concepts in defining labour, particularly in the context of a South Asian agrarian economy. The author demonstrates that sources of labour are not uniform, and that labour in the rural context is not a homogeneous commodity.

Identification of labourers or groups with a common interest does not necessarily fit into the formal definition of labourers based on relationships of possession and separation from the means of production. On the contrary, based on empirical research, the study suggests that defining and identifying the class of labourer demands a critical analysis of the economic and political relations which bind them into the same procession of production and reproduction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-277) and index.