This book focuses on the relationship between economic growth in Third World agriculture and the employment of bonded labour

Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour: Case Studies and Debates (Library of Peasant Studies, 16)

Brass, Tom

Brass, Dr Dr Tom

Reference

Routledge

Latin American Peasants (Library of Peasant Studies, 21)

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.

Business & Money

Economics

Book by Brass, Tom, Harris, Patricia, Lyon, David, Morgan, Stephen

Signpost New England: Your Guide to Great Drives

Travel

LYON, David

Morgan, Stephen

Harris, Patricia

ROGERS, STILLMAN

Rogers, Barbara-Radcliffe

United States

UNKNO

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 nationalism. Although these ideologies replaced the cosmopolitanism of the Grand Tour, twentieth century travel literature continued to reflect a fear of vanishing rural otherness’ abroad, combined with the arrival there of the mass tourist, the plebeian from home

Class, Culture, and the Agrarian Myth (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

Haymarket Books

Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies: Reviews and Essays, 1982-2016 (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 102)

Examining how Marxist theory is lacking but much needed in a variety of analytical contexts, this book traces the theoretical maze in which Marxism currently finds itself, and from which it is trying to exit while remaining epistemologically intact. Scholar Tom Brass cogently argues that when Marxism is stripped of any or all of its core elements--such as class formation/consciousness/struggle, and a socialist transition--it ceases to be recognizable as Marxism at all. Consequently, the book constitutes an attempt by Marxist political economy to extricate itself from mistaken attempts to conflate it with the cultural turn, identity politics, bourgeois economics, or varieties of populism and nationalism, while grappling with the danger of not mapping Marxism in relation to those discourses.

Marxism Missing, Missing Marxism: From Marxism to Identity Politics and Beyond (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

The object is to assess the validity, in the light of current economic development, of the epistemology structuring different historical interpretations linking capitalism, unfreedom and primitive accumulation. Conventional wisdom is that regarding the incompatibility between capitalism and unfreedom an unbroken continuity links Marxism to Adam Smith, Malthus, Mill and Max Weber. Challenging this, it is argued Marxism accepts that, where class struggle is global, capitalist producers employ workers who are unfree. The reasons are traced to the conceptualization by Smith of labour as value, by Hegel of labour as property, and by Marx of labour-power as commodity that can be bought/sold. From this stems the free/unfree distinction informing the process of becoming, being, remaining, and acting as a proletariat.

Labour Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century: Unfreedom, Capitalism and Primitive Accumulation (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 35)

Brill Academic Pub

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 nationalism. Although these ideologies replaced the cosmopolitanism of the Grand Tour, twentieth century travel literature continued to reflect a fear of vanishing rural 'otherness' abroad, combined with the arrival there of the mass tourist, the plebeian from home.

Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 64)

Religion & Spirituality

Examining how Marxist theory is missing but necessary, this book traces the theoretical maze in which Marxism currently finds itself, and from which it is trying to exit whilst at the same time remaining epistemologically intact. When stripped of any or all of its core elements - such as class formation/consciousness/struggle, and a socialist transition - it ceases to be what historically Marxists have claimed it is. Consequently, the book constitutes an attempt by Marxist political economy to extricate itself from mistaken attempts to conflate it with the cultural turn, identity politics, bourgeois economics, or varieties of populism and nationalism, together with the danger of not doing so.

Marxism Missing, Missing Marxism: From Marxism to Identity Politics and Beyond (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 183)

Marxism Missing, Missing Marxism

Leiden, Brill

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