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Markets, Class and Social Change: Trading Networks and Poverty in Rural South Asia
Ben Crow
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Description for Markets, Class and Social Change: Trading Networks and Poverty in Rural South Asia
Hardcover. This title uses a detailed study of the grain trade in Bangladesh to show how socially constrained patterns of market involvement may benefit the rich while disadvantaging the poor. It suggests that markets are implicated in the making of society, its divisions, identities and direction. Num Pages: 282 pages, 25 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKB; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century an idealized view of markets informs government policy. Real differences in how markets interact with social change are obscured and public action on poverty is constrained. Markets, Class and Social Change uses a detailed study of the grain trade in Bangladesh to show how socially-constrained patterns of market involvement may systematically benefit the rich while disadvantaging the poor. More generally, the book suggests that markets are implicated in the making of society, its divisions, identities and directions.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century an idealized view of markets informs government policy. Real differences in how markets interact with social change are obscured and public action on poverty is constrained. Markets, Class and Social Change uses a detailed study of the grain trade in Bangladesh to show how socially-constrained patterns of market involvement may systematically benefit the rich while disadvantaging the poor. More generally, the book suggests that markets are implicated in the making of society, its divisions, identities and directions.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
265
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333946008
SKU
V9780333946008
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Ben Crow
BEN CROW is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has written or co-authored several books including Sharing the Ganges, Third World Atlas, Survival and Change in the Third World and The Food Question.
Reviews for Markets, Class and Social Change: Trading Networks and Poverty in Rural South Asia
'...a tour de force... enjoyable to read even though its subject matter...is grim in the extreme.' - Barbara Harriss-White, Oxford University '...a truly significant contribution to agrarian political economy: at once, clear, to the point, incisive and original.' - T.J.Byres, Editor, Journal of Peasant Studies 'Writing against the grain of globalization and the free ... Read more