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The Poverty Regime in Village India

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This book is a companion volume to the recently published Labour Bondage in West India. Both the volumes are an outcome of the author's return to the villages of his earlier fieldwork in South Gujarat between 2004 and 2006. His aim was to ascertain whether economic growth during the last half century had indeed helped to improve the lot of the rural proletariat.

As before, the poverty-stricken landless labourers are the subject of this study. Challenging the economists' view on the meaning, magnitude, and dynamics of poverty, Breman presents a case for analysing deprivation within a wider social context. His findings show that the landless may not have become poorer than they were half a century ago but the gap separating them from the better-off in the village economy has widened enormously. The market economy has not created more economic, political, and social space for them. Footloose, underemployed, and working for paltry wages, this class is struck far below the poverty line.

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Author: Jan Breman
Year: 2007
Price: Rs. 795
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Dimensions: 215 mm x 140 mm
Publisher: Oxford University Press (India)
ISBN 13: 9780195690835

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