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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.
List of contents
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. Chayanov's 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.
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
