Jan Breman

Sudipto Mundle

In those African, Asian, and Latin American countries where the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society is not yet complete, the agrarian question remains at the center of economic and political discourse. This volume of papers by leading economists, sociologists, and historians presents varying interpretations of the question from a specifically Asian context. Looking in detail at China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, this volume presents a fascinating picture of rural transformation in Asia.

Rural Transformation in Asia

Professor of Social Anthropology Jan Breman

Rural Labour Circulation and Capitalist Production in West India

Of Peasants, Migrants, and Paupers

Thisstudy of the working poor in India examines the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labour market, depend on casual work.

Working in India's Informal Economy

Footloose Labour

Parthiv Shah

"In this book, sociologist Jan Breman and photographer Parthiv Shah continue their documentation and analyses of the working class that started with Down and Out, Labouring Under Global Capitalism (AUP, 2000). Working in the Mill No More carries more than 200 images that narrate the story of the rise and decline of Ahmedadbad's 120,000 textile mill workers. These photographs and the narrative supporting them will interest sociologists, historians, labour economists, and social anthropologists as also activists, journalists, and general readers."--BOOK JACKET.

Working in the Mill No More

Arvind N. Das

On the condition of workers in the informal sector like textile, diamond, sugar, brick making and construction in and around Surat, Gujarat.

Labouring Under Global Capitalism

Down and Out

Ching Kwan Lee

Marcel van der Linden

Kevan Harris

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the “giant evils” while diagnosing the crises produced by the emergence of industrial society. More recently, during the final quarter of the twentieth century, the global spread of neoliberal policies enlarged these crises so much that the Social Question has made a comeback. The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century maps out the linked crises across regions and countries and identifies the renewed and intensified Social Question as a labor issue above all. The volume includes discussions from every corner of the globe, focusing on American exceptionalism, Chinese repression, Indian exclusion, South African colonialism, democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, and other phenomena. The effects of capitalism dominating the world, the impact of the scarcity of waged work, and the degree to which the dispossessed poor bear the brunt of the crisis are all evaluated in this carefully curated volume. Both thorough and thoughtful, the book serves as collective effort to revive and reposition the Social Question, reconstructing its meaning and its politics in the world today.

A Global View

The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century

Uraian dengan argumen kuat tentang penerapan dan dampak politik kolonial, yang memperlihatkan bagaimana ‘masyarakat pribumi’ dipaksa untuk menghasilkan surplus yang menyebabkan mereka berada dalam kemiskinan, membuat para penguasa kaya, dan menjadikan negeri Belanda siap melaksanakan proses modernisasinya. John Ingleson, Deputy Vice Chancellor University of Western Sydney dan sejarawan dalam bidang kolonialisme di Indonesia Buku terobosan karya pakar sosiologi perkembangan Belanda yang paling terkemuka ini memperlihatkan pada kita bagaimana pemerintah kolonial pada masa pemerintahan Hindia-Belanda menerapkan “kerja paksa yang didelegasikan“ sebagai dasar cara kerja yang dipakai untuk pertanian dengan tujuan ekspor. Sebelumnya penerapan kerja paksa seperti itu belum pernah diuraikan secara jelas dan lengkap. Marcel van der Linden, Direktur penelitian Institut Internasional Sejarah Sosial, Amsterdam Sebuah uraian yang mendalam dan mengesankan mengenai penderitaan dan ketidakadilan dari masa lalu yang tidak boleh dilupakan. Edisi Indonesia buku ini sangat diharapkan. S.M.P. Tjondronegoro, Guru Besar Emeritus Instituut Pertanian Bogor dan wakil ketua Akademi Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia Penelitian yang dipaparkan dengan landasan baik ini membahas pembentukan dan pengoperasian dari suatu sistem eksploitasi yang keras yang mengubah suatu daerah ‘frontier’ menjadi pemasok utama kopi untuk pasar dunia. Penulis sangat menentang pandangan yang bersifat etatistis itu dan juga menentang pembenaran implisit yang memenuhi sumber-sumber yang dipakai. Membaca buku ini mendatangkan perasaan puas, menguntungkan bagi para ahli sejarah Indonesia, dan bagi siapa pun yang memiliki perhatian terhadap perubahan pertanian, tenaga kerja, dan pembentukan negara pada masa kolonial. Heather Sutherland, Guru Besar Emeritus Sejarah non-Barat, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Sistem Priangan dari Tanam Paksa Kopi di Jawa 1720-1870

Keuntungan Kolonial dari Kerja Paksa

Pauperism and pauperization are two of the most persistent and widespread phenomena in India. While a fierce debate rages on the line separating the poor from the non-poor, there is scant discussion on the huge mass of paupersnot less than one-fifth of the countrys populationliving in destitution. Rural and urban case studies conducted in the state of Gujarat highlight the ordeal of these paupersthe non-labouring poor unable to take care of themselves, the migrant labour driven away from the village and back for lack of work, and an urban underclass redundant to demand, often experienced by the better-off as a nuisance. A comparative study of the politics and policies in present-day India in relation to the condition of the ultra-poor in Victorian England reveals a disturbing common factora deeply ingrained mindset of social inequality resembling the spirit of nineteenth-century social Darwinism. That ideology of discrimination and exclusion is back with a vengeance the world all over and not least in India. This book examines poverty and inequality through a sociologicalanthropological lens that goes beyond the quantitative and unravels the fuzzy landscape of the informal economy. It fills a conspicuous gap in the literature on casual labourthat on the floating and footloose transient labour.

Jan Breman

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