Peripheral Labour

Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization

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Edited by Shahid Amin and Marcel Van der Linden

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published May 1997, 181 pages, paper

ISBN 0521589002

This book takes a fresh look at the notion of wage-workers and suggests that the idea of a "pure" working class should be reconsidered. Specific South Asian and Latin American case studies are used. By rethinking the fundamental assumptions of "classical" labour and working-class history, the articles contribute to the development of a non-eurocentric historiography.