Unfree labour as primitive accumulation?

Capital & Class

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-38

  Brass, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

capitalist restructuring; class struggle; deproletarianisation; primitive accumulation; unfree labour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993782372     PISSN: 03098168     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309816810392969     Document Type: Article

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