The larger part of the economy in most developing countries is outside the regulative control
of the state. When defined in this way, it has two types of expression: first, self-employment …

This essay reviews five recent books concerned with different aspects of the agrarian crisis
and agrarian questions in India. Each book deals, implicitly or explicitly, with specific facets …

Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled increasing numbers of
people into situations of chronic waiting, where promised access to political freedoms, social …

Winner of the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. The essays collected here
straddle four decades of work in both historiography and Marxist theory, combining source …

By drawing on her extensive fieldwork in India and on the adjacent theoretical literature,
Barbara Harriss-White describes the working of the Indian economy through its most …

This book explores the processes producing and reproducing the garment sweatshop in
India. Drawing from Marxian and feminist insights, the book theorises the garment …

This paper contributes to the continuing debate over the multifaceted concept of trust, and its
ability to provide a richer explanation of processes of economic activity. Using case studies …

Who can deny the significance of food? It has a central role in our health and pleasure as
well as in our economy, politics and culture. Food in Society provides a social science …

Sally Baden is a socio-economist working on gender issues, with specialist interests in
economic reform, markets and poverty. For the past six years, she has been manager of the …

In 1974, the World Food Conference was held in Rome amidst growing anxiety over food
availability and food prices. Poor weather and unprecedented US grain sales to the Soviet …