Originally published in 1982, this book provides an important set of basic materials for students of rural development. Key papers have been chosen and a general introduction and passages that link the papers provided, alerting the student to rival theoretical interpretations and to regional parallels and contrasts.
Originally published in 1982, this book provides an important set of basic materials for students of rural development. Key papers have been chosen and arranged, and the editor has provided a general introduction and passages that link the papers, alerting the student to rival theoretical interpretations and to regional parallels and contrasts. The book provides a basis for the analysis of the processes that make rural societies and economies what they are and substantially determine the changes that take place within them. The papers help the reader to understand the nature of the phenomena with which rural development has to deal, and in doing so to begin to evaluate the interventions of agencies and planners.
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What makes the volume more than useful or handyis the insight John Harriss brings to the introductions which preface each major section and go considerably beyond simply summarising the arguments of the individual papersIt is difficult to be critical of the Harriss volume. Many of the articlesrepresent classic thinking on rural development Susanne D. Mueller, The Journal of Development Studies, Volume 20, Issue 3.
Part 1: Analyses of Agrarian Change and Rural Development Strategies.
Introduction.
1. Unimodal and Bimodal Strategies of Agrarian Change B. F.
Johnston and P. Kilby
2. Why Poor People Stay Poor Michael Lipton
3. Agrarian
Transition and the Agrarian Question T. J. Byres
4. Urban Bias, Rural Bias
and Industrialization: An Appraisal of the Work of Michael Lipton and Terry
Byres Stuart Corbridge Part 2: Structural Analysis of Agrarian Change:
Capital and Peasantry Introduction
5. The Differentiation of the Peasantry V.
I. Lenin
6. Classical Discussions of Capital and Peasantry: A Critique Göran
Djurfeldt
7. Notes on Capital and Peasantry Henry Bernstein
8. Peasant
Economies and the Development of Capitalist Agriculture in the Cauca Valley,
Colombia M. Taussig Part 3: Analyses of the Peasant Farm Economy Introduction
9. Polarization and Cyclical Mobility: The Russian Debate Over the
Differentiation of the Peasantry Teodor Shanin
10. Chayanovs Theory of
Peasant Economy Mark Harrison
11. Game Against Nature: Theories of Peasant
Decision Making Michael Lipton
12. Production Conditions in Indian
Agriculture Krishna Bharadwaj Part 4: Rural Labour Introduction
13.
Population, Involution and Employment in Rural Java Benjamin White
14.
Peasants, Proletarianization and the Articulation of Modes of Production: The
Case of Sugar Cane Cutters in Norther Peru, 1940-69 C. D. Scott Part 5: The
State and the Peasantry. Introduction.
15. The State and the Peasantry in
Tanzania Philip Raikes
16. Taking the Part of Peasants Gavin Williams
17.
Towards a Practical Theory of Agrarian Transition Mark Harrison.
John Harriss a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is Professor Emeritus of International Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, having taught previously at the London School of Economics and the University of East Anglia. He has carried on research in Asia, mostly in India, since the early 1970s.
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