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Between construction yard and village: Changing relations of caste and hierarchy among Madhya Pradesh's labouring classes

Kaba, Arnaud - In: Journal of Agrarian Change 23 (2022) 2, pp. 307-326

In Madhya Pradesh, India, rural migrant workers hired in flyover's construction yards experiment a space of work where the social practices relating to caste separation and hierarchy are temporally softened. This paper shows that these processes of conviviality, through mixing between castes and...

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Disparate but not antagonistic: Classes of labour in cotton production in Burkina Faso

Engels, Bettina - In: Journal of Agrarian Change 23 (2022) 1, pp. 149-166

This paper examines the variety of agrarian classes of labour and the challenges they face in organizing and pursuing … their interests. By taking the cotton sector in Burkina Faso as a case study, it analyses how various ‘classes of labour … interclass alliances, and on capital's attempts to play the classes of labour against one another. The boycott campaign provides …

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