Labour markets, identities, controversies
Subtitle: reviews and essays 1982-2016
By: Tom Brass
Series: Studies in critical social sciences -- v. 102; Studies in critical social sciences
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9781608469284
Subjects: Labor market; Labor; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-424) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: labour markets, identities, controversies; title: Reviews; title: Reinventing india?; title: Saints and sinners; title: Seeing ghosts; title: Brief encounters with class; title: Interns interned; title: Marxist academics and liberal hypocrisy; title: Backing into the limelight; title: A marxist defence of marxist theory; title: Houellebecq, anthropologist?; title: Review essays; title: The struggle of/(over) post-emancipation rural labour at their perfect command'?; title: Shifts and stasis in development studies; title: Zomia, or a postmodern history of nowhere; title: The populist drift of global labour history; title: The sabotage of anthropology and the anthropologist as saboteur; title: How agrarian cooperatives fail lessons from 1970s Peru; title: Capitalism bonded labour in India : reinterpreting recent (re- ) interpretations; title: The unsaying of Marxism : capitalist accumulation and unfreedom; title: Academia as mode of seduction, or the elephant in the socialist room; title: The industrial reserve army : what's not to like?; title: Bibliography; title: Author index; title: Subject index.