Multiple job holding in rural villages and the Chinese road to development [0.03%]
农村地区的多重就业和中国的脱贫之路
Jan Douwe van der Ploeg,Ye Jingzhong
Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
This paper examines some of the interrelations that exist between rural China's peasant economy and the wider economy in which it is embedded. In doing so it focuses on the circular flows that link town and countryside. Multiple job holding...
A neoliberalisation of civil society? Self-help groups and the labouring class poor in rural South India [0.03%]
自下而上的新自由主义？南印度农村地区自助团体与劳动贫困阶级的发展关系
Jonathan Pattenden
Jonathan Pattenden
This paper notes the prominence of self-help groups (SHGs) within current anti-poverty policy in India, and analyses the impacts of government- and NGO-backed SHGs in rural North Karnataka. It argues that self-help groups represent a partia...
Mindi Schneider,Philip McMichael
Mindi Schneider
This paper critically assesses the metabolic rift as a social, ecological, and historical concept describing the disruption of natural cycles and processes and ruptures in material human-nature relations under capitalism. As a social concep...
Transformations in the age and gender of unfree workers on hybrid cotton seed farms in Andhra Pradesh [0.03%]
安得拉邦杂交棉花农场上的雇佣劳工的年龄和性别变化
D Venkateshwarlu,L DaCorta
D Venkateshwarlu
Unfreedom in Indian agriculture is ordinarily associated with adult male bonded labour, and it is generally argued that unfreedom is likely to disappear as capitalism spreads/advances. By contrast, we find that workers employed on advanced ...
A Dinerman
A Dinerman
Merle Bowen's study focuses on the evolution of the 'middle peasantry' in both colonial and postcolonial Mozambique. In doing so, she successfully challenges long-standing, if highly problematic, notions that the Mozambican economy consists...
M Zmolek
M Zmolek
In response to Albritton [2000], who asserts that the central dynamic of capitalism's genesis was putting-out manufacturing, I provide a sketch of the processes of agrarian capitalism. The elaboration of the common law in the Middle Ages en...
Proto-industrialization, sharecropping, and outmigration in nineteenth-century rural Westphalia [0.03%]
19世纪威斯特法伦农村地区的 proto-industrialization、sharecropping 和外迁现象
T G Anderson
T G Anderson
This article examines proto-industrialization and the social relations of production in a rural parish in eastern Westphalia that experienced large-scale outmigration to the American Midwest in the mid-nineteenth century. Relying on local a...
M Swaminathan
M Swaminathan
Gender, resistance and land: interlinked struggles over resources and meanings in South Asia [0.03%]
性别、抵抗与土地——南亚地区关于资源和意义的交织斗争
B Agarwal
B Agarwal
This article examines the nature of women's resistance to gender inequities in resource distribution and ideological representation. It argues that to understand how women perceive these inequities it is necessary to take into account not o...