Why unfree labour is not 'so-called': The fictions of Jairus Banaji

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-136

  Brass, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LABOR; LABOR MARKET; SLAVE; THEORETICAL STUDY; WORKING CONDITIONS;

EID: 2042533499     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0306615031000169143     Document Type: Article

References (91)

1. Bales, Kevin, 1999, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
2. Banaji, Jairus, 1970a, 'Hierarchy and Power: Reflections of a Blind Materialist', Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Vol.1, No.1.
3. Banaji, Jairus, 1970b, 'The Crisis of British Social Anthropology', New Left Review, No.64.
4. Banaji, Jairus, 1972, 'For a Theory of Colonial Modes of Production', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.VII, No.52.
5. Banaji, Jairus, 1973, 'Backward Capitalism, Primitive Accumulation and Modes of Production', Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.3, No.3.
6. Banaji, Jairus, 1976, 'Chayanov, Kautsky, Lenin: Considerations towards a synthesis', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XI, No.40.
7. Banaji, Jairus, 1977, 'Modes of Production in a Materialist Conception of History', Capital & Class, No.3.
8. Banaji, Jairus, 1978, 'Capitalist Domination and the Small Peasantry: Deccan Districts in the Late Nineteenth Century', in Ashok Rudra et al. [1978].
9. Banaji, Jairus, 1980, 'The Comintem and Indian Nationalism', in K.N. Panikkar (ed.) [1980].
10. Banaji, Jairus, 1990, 'Illusions About the Peasantry: Karl Kautsky and the Agrarian Question', The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.17, No.2.
11. Banaji, Jairus, 1995, 'The Farmers' Movements: A Critique of Conservative Rural Coalitions', in Tom Brass (ed.) [1995].
12. Banaji, Jairus, 2001a, 'Workers'rights in a new economic order', http://biblio-india.com/articles.
13. Banaji, Jairus, 2001b, Agrarian Change in Late Aniquity: Gold, Labour and Aristocratic Dominance, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
14. Banaji, Jairus, 2003, 'The Fictions of Free Labour, Contract, Coercion, and So-called Unfree Labour', Historical Materialism, Vol.11, No.3.
15. Beals, Carleton, 1932, Porfirio Diaz, Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott and Company.
16. Blackburn, Robin, 1988, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848, London: Verso.
17. Blackburn, Robin, 1997, The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800, London: Verso.
18. Brass, Tom, 1986, 'Unfree Labour and Capitalist Restructuring in the Agrarian Sector: Peru and India', The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.14, No.1.
19. Brass, Tom, 1988, 'Slavery Now: Unfree Labour and Modern Capitalism', Slavery & Abolition, Vol.9, No.2.
20. Brass, Tom, 1994, 'Some Observations on Unfree Labour, Capitalist Restructuring, and Deproletarianization', International Review of Social History, Vol.39, Part 2.
21. Brass, Tom, 1995, 'Reply to Utsa Patnaik: If the Cap Fits...', International Review of Social History, Vol.40, No. 1.
22. Brass, Tom, 1997a, 'Introduction: Free and Unfree Labour - The Debate Continues', in Tom Brass and Marcel van der Linden (eds.) [1997].
23. Brass, Tom, 1997b, 'Immobilized Workers, Footloose Theory', The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.24, No.4.
24. Brass, Tom, 1999, Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour: Case Studies and Debates, London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass Publishers.
25. Brass, Tom, 2000, 'Labour in Post-Colonial India: A Response to Jan Breman', The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.28, No. 1.
26. Brass, Tom, 2001, '"At Thier Perfect Command"? The Straggle of/(over) Post-Emancipation Rural Labour', The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.28, No.3.
27. Brass, Tom, 2002, 'Rural Labour in Agrarian Transitions: The Semi-Feudal Thesis Revisited', The Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.32, No.4.
28. Brass, Tom (ed.), 1995, New Farmers' Movements in India, London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass Publishers.
29. Brass, Tom, and Marcel van der Linden (eds.), 1997, Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues, Bern: Peter Lang AG.
30. Bukharin, Nicolai, 1927, The Economic Theory of the Leisure Class, New York: International Publishers.
31. Bush, M.L., 2000, Servitude in Modern Times, Cambridge: Polity.
32. Chattopadhyay, Paresh, 1978a, 'On the Question of the Mode of Production in Indian Agriculture', in Ashok Rudra et al. [1978].
33. Chattopadhyay, Paresh, 1978b, 'Mode of Production in Indian Agriculture: An Anti-Kritik', in Ashok Rudra et al. [1978].
34. da Cunha, Manuela Carneiro, 1985, 'Silences of the Law: Customary Law and Positive Law on the Manumission of Slaves in 19th century Brazil', History and Anthropology, Vol.1.
35. de Ste Croix, G.E.M., 1981, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests, London Duckworth.
36. Cohen, Robin, 1987, The New Helots: Migrants in the International Division of Labour, Aldershot: Gower Publishing Co.
37. Dobb, Maurice, 1940, Political Economy and Capitalism, London: Rountledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
38. Dobb, Maurice, 1946, Wages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
39. Drèze, Jean, and Anindita Mukherjee, 1987, Labour Contracts in Rural India: Theories and Evidence, London: LSE Development Research Programme.
40. Engels, Frederick, 1907, Landmarks of Scientific Socialism: 'Anti-Duehring', Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co.
41. Engels, Frederick, 1985a, 'Review of Volume One of Capital for The Fortnighitly Review', Marx/Engels Collected Works, Vol.20, Moscow: Progress Publishers.
42. Engels, Frederick, 1985b, 'Synopsis of Volume One of Capital by Karl Marx', Marx/Engels Collected Works, Vol.20, Moscow: Progress Publishers.
43. Fanon, Franz, 1963, The Wretched of the Earth, New York: Grove Press.
44. Fogel, Robert William, 1989, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery, New York: W.W. Norton.
45. Fogel, Robert William, and Stanley L. Engerman, 1974, Time on the Cross: Volume I - The Economics of American Negro Slavery, London: Wildwood House.
46. Hannington, Wal, 1937, The Problem of the Distressed Areas, London: Left Book Club/Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
47. Harriss-White, Barbara, and Nandini Gooptu, 2000, 'Mapping India's World of Unorganized Labour', in Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (eds.) [2000].
48. Hobsbawm, E.J., W. Kula, Ashok Mitra, K.N. Raj, and Ignacy Sachs (eds.), 1980, Peasants in History: Essays in Honour of Daniel Thorner, Bombay: Oxford University Press.
49. HM Attorney-General, 1946, The Trial of German Major War Criminals by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg, Germany: Speeches of the Chief Prosecutors, London: HMSO.
50. Kannan, K.P., and Mario Rutten, 2002, 'Labour and Capitalist Transformation in Asia: Report on a Conference', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XXXVII, No.21.
51. Kautsky, Karl, 1936, The Economic Doctrines of Karl Marx, Hampstead: NCLC Publishing Society Ltd.
52. Kerr, Ian, 1997, 'Free or Unfree? Railway Construction Labour in Nineteenth Century India', in Tom Brass and Marcel van der Linden (eds.) [1997].
53. Klein, Naomi, 1999, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, New York: St. Martin's Press.
54. Kuczynski, Jürgen, 1939, The Condition of the Workers in Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union, 1932-1938, London: Left Book Club/Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
55. Kula, Witold, 1976, An Economic Theory of the Feudal System: Towards a Model of the Polish Economy 1500-1800, London: NLB.
56. Lenin, V.L. 1960a, 'What the "Friends of the People" Are, and How They Fight the Social-Democrats', Collected Works, Vol.1, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House.
57. Lenin, V.I., 1960b, 'The Economic Content of Narodnism', Collected Works, Vol.1, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House.
58. Lichtenstein, Alex, 1996, Twice The Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South, London: Verso.
59. Marx, Karl, c. 1930 [1880], A Workers' Enquiry, London: Communist Party of Great Britain.
60. Marx, Karl, 1973, Grundrisse, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
61. Marx, Karl, 1976, Capital Volume 1, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
62. Marx, Karl, 1981, Capital Volume 3, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
63. Marx, Karl, 1988, 'Economic Manuscript of 1861-63', Marx/Engels Collected Works, Vol.30, Moscow: Progress Publishers.
64. Miles, Robert, 1987, Capitalism and Unfree Labour: Anomaly or Necessity?, London: Tavistock Publications.
65. Mundle, Sudipto, 1979, Backwardness and Bondage: Agrarian Relations in a South Bihar District, New Delhi: Indian Institute of Public Administration.
66. Omvedt, Gail, 1991, 'Theorists of the Peasantry Should at Least Have Their Feet on the Ground: A Response to Banaji', The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1.
67. Panikkar, K.N. (ed.), 1980, National and Left Movements in India, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House.
68. Panitch, Leo, and Colin Leys (eds.), 2000, The Socialist Register 2001, London: The Merlin Press.
69. Pashukanis, Evgeny B., 1978, Law and Marxism: A General Theory, London: Ink Links.
70. Patnaik, Utsa, 1995, 'On Capitalism and Agrestic Unfreedom', International Review of Social History, Vol.40, Part1.
71. Patnaik, Utsa 1999, The Long Transition, New Delhi: Tulika.
72. Pawate, I.S., 1953, Contract and the Freedom of the Debtor in the Common Law, Bombay: N.M. Tripathi Ltd.
73. Ramachandran, V.K., 1990, Wage Labour and Unfreedom in Agriculture: An Indian Case Study, Oxford: Clarendon.
74. Rao, J. Mohan, 1999, 'Freedom, Equality, Property and Bentham: The Debate Over Unfree Labour', The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.27, No. 1.
75. Renner, Karl, 1949, The Institutions of Private Law and Their Social Functions, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
76. Robert, Joseph Clarke, 1938, The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market, and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
77. Roth, Karl Heinz, 1997, 'Unfree Labour in the Area under German Hegemony, 1930-1945: Some Historical and Methodological Questions', in Tom Brass and Marcel van der Linden (eds.) [1997].
78. Rudra, Ashok, et al., 1978, Studies in the Development of Capitalism in India, Lahore: Vanguard Books.
79. Rudra, Ashok, 1990, 'Indian Capitalism and Marxist Theory', in Gyansham Shah (ed.) [1990].
80. Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1947, Existentialism, New York: Philosophical Library.
81. Sen, Amartya, 1980, 'Famine Mortality: A Study of the Bengal Famine of 1943', in Hobsbawm et al. (eds.) [1980].
82. Sen, Amartya, 1981, Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
83. Sen, Amartya, 1999, Development as Freedom, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
84. Shah, Gyansham (ed.), 1990, Capitalist Development: Critical Essays, Bombay: Sangam Books.
85. Steinfeld, Robert J. 2001, Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
86. Steinfeld, Robert J., and Stanley L. Engerman, 1997, 'Labor - Free or Coerced? A Historical Reassessment of Differences and Similarities', in Tom Brass and Marcel van der Linden (eds.) [1997].
87. Sweezy, Paul M., 1946, The Theory of Capitalist Development: Principles of Marxian Political Economy, London: Dennis Dobson Limited.
88. Thorner, Alice, 1982, 'Semi-Feudalism or Capitalism? Contemporary Debate on Classes and Modes of Production in India', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XVII, Nos.49-51.
89. van der Linden, Marcel 2003, 'Refuting History's Occidentalism', in A. Das and M. van der Linden (eds.) [2003].
90. Das, A., and M. van der Linden (eds.), 2003, Work and Social Change in Asia: Essays in Honour of Jan Breman, New Delhi: Manohar.
91. Wolpe, Harold 1980, 'Introduction' to The Articulation of Modes of Production, edited by Harold Wolpe, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.