Rural Development

Part 1: Analyses of Agrarian Change and Rural Development 'Strategies'. Introduction. 1. 'Unimodal' and 'Bimodal' Strategies of Agrarian Change B. F. Johnston and P. Kilby 2. Why Poor People Stay Poor Michael Lipton 3. Agrarian Transition and the Agrarian Question T. J. Byres 4. Urban Bias, Rural Bias and Industrialization: An Appraisal of the Work of Michael Lipton and Terry Byres Stuart Corbridge Part 2: Structural Analysis of Agrarian Change: Capital and Peasantry Introduction 5. The Differentiation of the Peasantry V. I. Lenin 6. Classical Discussions of Capital and Peasantry: A Critique Goran Djurfeldt 7. Notes on Capital and Peasantry Henry Bernstein 8. Peasant Economies and the Development of Capitalist Agriculture in the Cauca Valley, Colombia M. Taussig Part 3: Analyses of the Peasant Farm Economy Introduction 9. Polarization and Cyclical Mobility: The Russian Debate Over the Differentiation of the Peasantry Teodor Shanin 10. Chayanov's Theory of Peasant Economy Mark Harrison 11. Game Against Nature: Theories of Peasant Decision Making Michael Lipton 12. Production Conditions in Indian Agriculture Krishna Bharadwaj Part 4: Rural Labour Introduction 13. Population, Involution and Employment in Rural Java Benjamin White 14. Peasants, Proletarianization and the Articulation of Modes of Production: The Case of Sugar Cane Cutters in Norther Peru, 1940-69 C. D. Scott Part 5: The State and the Peasantry. Introduction. 15. The State and the Peasantry in Tanzania Philip Raikes 16. Taking the Part of Peasants Gavin Williams 17. Towards a Practical Theory of Agrarian Transition Mark Harrison.