1st Edition
Peasants and Globalization Political economy, rural transformation and the agrarian question
Part 1: Peasant Livelihoods and the Agrarian Question, 1 The agrarian question: peasants and rural change, A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Cristóbal Kay, Part 2: Historical Perspectives on Agrarian Change, 2 Peasants and the market imperative: the origins of capitalism, Ellen Meiksins Wood, 3 The landlord class, peasant differentiation, class struggle and the transition to capitalism: England, France and Prussia compared, Terence J. Byres, 4 Nineteenth-century imperialism and structural transformation in colonized countries, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, 5 The invisible hand and the visible foot: peasants, dispossession and globalization, Farshad Araghi, 6 Peasant struggles for land and agrarian reform in Latin America, Miguel Teubal, Part 3: Contemporary Perspectives on Agrarian Change, 7 The globalization of manufacturing production: Warrenite fantasies and uneven and unequal realities, Ray Keily, 8 Gender justice, land and the agrarian question in southern Africa, Bridget O'Laughlin, 9 The political economy of land and the agrarian question in an era of neoliberal globalization, A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Cristóbal Kay and Saturnino M. Borras, 10 Agrarian questions from transition to globalization, Henry Bernstein, 11 The Southern question: agrarian questions of labour and capital, Michael J. Watts, 12 Food sovereignty, social reproduction and the agrarian question, Philip McMichael, Part 4: The Agrarian Question, Past and Present, 13 Neoliberal globalization, the traits of rural accumulation and rural politics: the agrarian question in the 21st Century, A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Cristóbal Kay
Biography
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi is Professor of International Development Studies at Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. Cristóbal Kay is Professor of Development Studies and Rural Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands.
