Peasant poverty and persistence in the twenty-first century: theories, debates, realities and policies
In: CROP International studies in poverty research
First Part: Introducing the book; Foreword; 1. Persistence of peasantry: a problem for theory or history?; 2. Abstract and concrete labour; 3. Peasant labour; Conclusion; References; Introduction; 1. The origins and contents of this book; 2. On the definition of poverty and the low reliability of rural poverty data; 3. Situating this volume in the history of peasant studies; 4. Conceptualising the peasantry or the 'awkward class'; 5. Contributions of the authors; Notes 8. Obstacles to capitalist agriculture: the Mann-Dickinson thesis9. Marx and his vision of agriculture; 10. Marx's theory of value disregards discontinuous labour processes; 11. Towards a valid theory of value for discontinuous work processes; 12. Towards a general theory of value; 13. Subsidies and poverty in peasant economies; Notes; References; 2. Rethinking rustic issues: contributions to a theory of contemporary peasantry; 1. Introduction; 2. Peasants and technology: creating the milpa (maize mixed field); 3. Peasants and economy: the return of differential rent 4. The place of peasants in the development model: 'bimodal agriculture' again?5. The peasant in his labyrinth: a polemic; Notes; References; 3. From field to fork: labour power, its reproduction, and the persistence of peasant poverty; 1. Introduction; 2. Problems with Boltvinik's analysis of peasant poverty; 3. The production and reproduction of labour power; 4. The invisibility of domestic labour in theory and practice; 5. Women and global development; 6. Impure capitalism and its peculiar forms of production; 7. The informal sector and global poverty 8. Farm subsidies: a perishable, no longer ripe idea9. What is to be done?; Notes; References; 4. Baroque modernity and peasant poverty in the twenty-first century; 1. Epochal crisis of capitalism and peasant poverty; 2. The controversy over peasant poverty within capitalism; 3. The specific formal subsumption of agricultural labour by capital, and seasonal time wages; 4. Cynical or bruta