Wage, labour and unfreedom in agriculture: an Indian case study (Record no. 76369)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01550nam a2200145Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 978-0198286473 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ramachandran V.K. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Wage, labour and unfreedom in agriculture: an Indian case study |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1990 |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Clarendon Press |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvii,321p |
| Other physical details | 24 cm ; Hard Bound |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Some features of the Agrarian economy of the Cumbum Valley; classes and property inequality in Gokilapuram; the labour force - sources of expansion; the demand for labour and sources of employment; the deployment of labour time; some aspects of the material conditions of life of agricultural labourers; labour services and unfree labour; aspects of the labour process in agriculture; resurvey 1968. Appendices: notes on methods of collection of primary data; case study - farming practices in rice; cultivation on surface-irrigated land; case study - Karuppayya Asari, Blacksmith; definitions of asset categories; from peasant to proletarian - a case study of P.Chinnasubbayyan; case study - G.Selvam, farm servant; the Periyar irrigation system in Cokilapuram; case studies of irrigation workers |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Focusing on an area in the vanguard of agricultural development in Southern India, this book asks how so much growth and technical change can take place in agriculture and yet leave the position of the labourers relatively unchanged. The author examines the decline of wages, the property-less status of labourers, and consumption and indebtedness |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Agriculture |
| -- | Economics |
| -- | Agricultural wages |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| GSB Collection | 25/03/2010 | 331.28309548 RAM | 15524 | 29/04/2013 | 21/06/2019 | Books |