Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Name: Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America
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ISBN: 9781853394775

ISBN-10: 1853394777

ISBN-13: 9781853394775

Edition: 2000

Authors: Deborah Bryceson, Christobal Kay, Jos Mooij, Cristï¿½bal Kay, Jos Mooij

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This book points out how peasant labour redundancy can undermine rural welfare and political stability, and why academics and policy-makers of the 21st century cannot ignore the world's disappearing peasantries.

Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
Publication date: 12/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188

Deborah Fahy Bryceson is a Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University. She is a graduate of the University of Dar es Salaam and took her doctorate at Oxford.



Foreword


Introduction



Peasant Theories and Smallholder Policies


Past and Present



Sub-Saharan Africa



African Peasants' Centrality and Marginality


Rural Labour Transformations



Modernization and Adjustment in African Peasant Agriculture



Veiled Conflicts: Peasant Differentiation, Gender and Structural Adjustment in Nigerian Hausaland



The Politics of Peasant Ethnic Communities and Urban Civil Society: Reflections of an African Dilemma



Peasant Wars in Africa: Gone With the Wind



Iatin America



Latin America's Agrarian Transformation: Peasantisation and Proletarianisation



Towards a Reconstruction of Cuba's Agrarian Transformation: Peasantisation, Depeasantisation and Repeasantisation



The Mexican Peasantry and the Ejido in the Neo-Liberal Period



Global-Local Links in Latin America's New Ruralities



Structural Adjustment, Peasant Differentiation and the Environment in Central America



Asia



Changing Peasantries in Asia



Labour and Landlessness in South and Southeast Asia



Women Workers in Bonded Labour in Rural Industry in South India: Responsibility without Rights



The Fate of the Chinese Peasantry since 1978



Japan's New Peasants John Knight


Conclustions



Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour Redundancy in the Neo-Liberal