Full 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 book does not restrict the analysis of issues such as the free/unfree labour distinction and non-class identity to Third World contexts. The reviews, review essays and essays collected here also examine similar issues now evident in metropolitan capitalism, together with their political and ideological effects and implications.
Contents
Acknowledgements ... ix
Introduction: Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies ... 1
Part 1: Reviews
1 Reinventing India? ... 33
2 Saints and Sinners ... 44
3 Seeing Ghosts ... 51
4 Brief Encounters with Class ... 56
5 Interns Interned ... 59
6 Marxist Academics and Liberal Hypocrisy ... 62
7 Backing into the Limelight ... 68
8 A Marxist Defence of Marxist Theory ... 73
9 Houellebecq, Anthropologist? ... 77
Part 2: Review Essays
10 The Struggle of/(over) Post-emancipation Rural Labour ('At Their Perfect Command'?) ... 85
11 Shifts and Stasis in Development Studies ... 106
12 Zomia, or a Postmodern History of Nowhere ... 140
13 The Populist Drift of Global Labour History ... 157
Part 3: Essays
14 The Sabotage of Anthropology and the Anthropologist as Saboteur ... 181
15 How Agrarian Cooperatives Fail: Lessons from 1970s Peru ... 192
16 Capitalism Bonded Labour in India: Reinterpreting Recent (Re-)Interpretations ... 239
17 The Unsaying of Marxism: Capitalist Accumulation and Unfreedom ... 292
18 Academia as Mode of Seduction, or the Elephant in the Socialist Room ... 312
19 The Industrial Reserve Army: What's Not to Like? ... 354
Bibliography ... 385
Author Index ... 425
Subject Index ... 433
