Table of Contents

Rural labour relations in India - persistent themes, common processes and differential outcomes; liberalisation, rural labour markets and the mobilisation of farm workers - the Haryana story in an All-India context; unfree relations and the feminisation of agricultural labour in Andhra Pradesh, 1970-95; rural labour relations and development dilemmas in Kerala - reflections on the dilemmas of a socially transforming labour force in a slowly growing economy; politics of the poor - agricultural labourers and political transformations in Utter Pradesh; agrarian power and unfree labour; rural labour in Uttar Pradesh - emerging features of subsistence, contradiction and resistance; patterns of accumulation and struggles of rural labour - some aspects of agrarian change in central Bihar; abstracts.

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T.J. Byres, Karin Kapadia, Jens Lerche