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Wage Labour and Unfreedom in Agriculture: An Indian Case Study

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  • Ramachandran, V. K.

    (Harvard University)

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This book addresses the question of how it is that so much growth and technical change can take place in agriculture and yet leave the position of agricultural labourers relatively unchanged. Much has been written on farmers and employers in LDC agriculture, but little that focuses on employees - this book will thus stimulate contribution to the study of labour markets and to development studies. In an area described as in the vanguard of agricultural development in Southern India, the author shows in some detail how limited the changes in the situation of labourers have been as agriculture has developed, and how serious the constraints still are. There is full discussion of central concerns such as the increase in numbers and proportions of agricultural labourers, the stagnation and marginal decline of wage rates and earnings, the property-less status of agricultural labourers, consumption and indebtedness, and labour relationships and processes.

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  • Ramachandran, V. K., 1991. "Wage Labour and Unfreedom in Agriculture: An Indian Case Study," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198286479.
    • Handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780198286479
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    1. Costa, Caio Cesar de Medeiros & Reis, Paulo Ricardo da Costa & Ferreira, Marco Aurelio Marques, 2012. "Impacts And Externalities Of Agricultural Modernization In Brazilian States," APSTRACT: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, AGRIMBA, vol. 6(3-4), pages 1-10, November.
    2. Surendran, Aardra & Kumar, Awanish, 2020. "Have RCTs brought back the “Empirical” into Economics?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).

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