Originally published in 1979, this book examines differing forms of
international, interracial working- class action and the
relationship between workers’ struggles in the periphery and
those in advanced capitalist countries. It analyses the nature of
class alliances forged in the countryside and the urban sprawls of
the developing world among workers, students and the unemployed.
The volume draws on theoretical debates and detailed empirical
studies dealing with a wide range of countries in Asia, Latin
America, Africa and the Caribbean. Each of the sections is preceded
by a linking editorial comment and the editors also provide an
introductory overview. Reviews of the original edition of Peasants
and Proletarians: ‘This is an important book both for historians
and for social scientists. It draws attention to a previously
underestimated labour force that has grown into a significant –
indeed, indispensable – part of the international economic
structure.’ Lynda Shaffer, Journal of Asian Studies, 39 (4) 1980.
‘This book offers a truly impressive and solid compilation of
material on labour in the Third World. The sheer range of
scholarship concerning many different types of workers over a
timescale of nearly I00 years in countries and political situations
as various, for example, as Lagos in the I890s, Jamaica in the
1930s, and socialist Algeria or Chile under Allende, is sometimes
bewildering, but never fails to stimulate and absorb the reader.’
Paul Kennedy, Journal of Modern African Studies, 19 (4) 1981.
‘Peasants and Proletarians is a very major contribution. The
editors' introduction, though brief, successfully raises many of
these issues and outlines an approach to them…The twenty-one
readings, concerned with early forms of resistance, rural workers,
strategies of working-class action, migrant workers in advanced
capitalist states, and contemporary struggles, offer geographical
and intellectual breadth in their exploration of the diversity of
Third World experience.’ Joel Samoff, ASA Review of Books, Vol.
6, 1980.
General
| Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Routledge Revivals |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| First published: |
1979 |
| Editors: |
Robin Cohen
• Peter C. W. Gutkind
• Phyllis Brazier
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
500 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-256676-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-03-256676-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781032566764 |
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