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There is a striking scarcity of work conducted on rural labour
markets in the developing world, particularly in Africa. This book
aims to fill this gap by bringing together a group of contributors
who boast substantial field experience researching rural wage
employment in various developing countries. It provides critical
perspectives on mainstream approaches to rural/agrarian
development, and analysis of agrarian change and rural
transformations from a long-term perspective. This book challenges
the notion that rural areas in low- and middle-income countries are
dominated by self-employment. It purports that this conventional
view is largely due to the application of conceptual frameworks and
statistical conventions that are ill-equipped to capture labour
market participation. The contributions in this book offer a
variety of methodological lessons for the study of rural labour
markets, focusing in particular on the use of mixed methods in
micro-level field research, and more emphasis on capturing
occupation multiplicity. The emphasis on context, history, and
specific configurations of power relations affecting rural labour
market outcomes are key and reoccurring features of this book. This
analysis will help readers think about policy options to improve
the quantity and quality of rural wage employment, their impact on
the poorest rural people, and their political feasibility in each
context.
Since the 2008 world food crisis a surge of land grabbing swept
Africa, Asia and Latin America and even some regions of Europe and
North America. Investors have uprooted rural communities for
massive agricultural, biofuels, mining, industrial and urbanisation
projects. 'Water grabbing' and 'green grabbing' have further
exacerbated social tensions. Early analyses of land grabbing
focused on foreign actors, the biofuels boom and Africa, and
pointed to catastrophic consequences for the rural poor.
Subsequently scholars carried out local case studies in diverse
world regions. The contributors to this volume advance the
discussion to a new stage, critically scrutinizing alarmist claims
of the first wave of research, probing the historical antecedents
of today's land grabbing, examining large-scale land acquisitions
in light of international human rights and investment law, and
considering anew longstanding questions in agrarian political
economy about forms of dispossession and accumulation and
grassroots resistance. Readers of this collection will learn about
the impacts of land and water grabbing; the relevance of key
theorists, including Marx, Polanyi and Harvey; the realities of
China's involvement in Africa; how contemporary land grabbing
differs from earlier plantation agriculture; and how social
movements-and rural people in general-are responding to this new
threat. This book was published as a special issue of Third World
Quarterly.
Since the 2008 world food crisis a surge of land grabbing swept
Africa, Asia and Latin America and even some regions of Europe and
North America. Investors have uprooted rural communities for
massive agricultural, biofuels, mining, industrial and urbanisation
projects. 'Water grabbing' and 'green grabbing' have further
exacerbated social tensions. Early analyses of land grabbing
focused on foreign actors, the biofuels boom and Africa, and
pointed to catastrophic consequences for the rural poor.
Subsequently scholars carried out local case studies in diverse
world regions. The contributors to this volume advance the
discussion to a new stage, critically scrutinizing alarmist claims
of the first wave of research, probing the historical antecedents
of today's land grabbing, examining large-scale land acquisitions
in light of international human rights and investment law, and
considering anew longstanding questions in agrarian political
economy about forms of dispossession and accumulation and
grassroots resistance. Readers of this collection will learn about
the impacts of land and water grabbing; the relevance of key
theorists, including Marx, Polanyi and Harvey; the realities of
China's involvement in Africa; how contemporary land grabbing
differs from earlier plantation agriculture; and how social
movements-and rural people in general-are responding to this new
threat. This book was published as a special issue of Third World
Quarterly.
There is a striking scarcity of work conducted on rural labour
markets in the developing world, particularly in Africa. This book
aims to fill this gap by bringing together a group of contributors
who boast substantial field experience researching rural wage
employment in various developing countries. It provides critical
perspectives on mainstream approaches to rural/agrarian
development, and analysis of agrarian change and rural
transformations from a long-term perspective. This book challenges
the notion that rural areas in low- and middle-income countries are
dominated by self-employment. It purports that this conventional
view is largely due to the application of conceptual frameworks and
statistical conventions that are ill-equipped to capture labour
market participation. The contributions in this book offer a
variety of methodological lessons for the study of rural labour
markets, focusing in particular on the use of mixed methods in
micro-level field research, and more emphasis on capturing
occupation multiplicity. The emphasis on context, history, and
specific configurations of power relations affecting rural labour
market outcomes are key and reoccurring features of this book. This
analysis will help readers think about policy options to improve
the quantity and quality of rural wage employment, their impact on
the poorest rural people, and their political feasibility in each
context.
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