Screen LibraryLabour markets, identities, controversies : reviews and essays, 1982-2016 /
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 h...
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Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Studies in critical social sciences,
volume 102 |
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| Summary: |
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 politi |
| Carrier Form: | x, 443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [385]-424) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004322370 (hardback) : 900432237X (hardback) |
| Index Number: | HD5706 |
| CLC: | F241.2 |
| Call Number: | F241.2/B823 |
| Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction: labour markets, identities, controversies -- Reviews -- Reinventing india? -- Saints and sinners -- Seeing ghosts -- Brief encounters with class -- Interns interned -- Marxist academics and liberal hypocrisy -- Backing into the limelight -- A marxist defence of marxist theory -- Houellebecq, anthropologist? -- Review essays -- The struggle of/(over) post-emancipation rural labour at their perfect command'? -- Shifts and stasis in development studies -- Zomia, or a postmodern history of nowhere -- The populist drift of global labour history -- The sabotage of |