"The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies provides an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the field, challenging mainstream development discourse and the assumptions that underlie it. Critical development studies lays bare the economic, political, social and environmental...

1. Introduction / Paul Bowles -- 2. From lucky country to banana republic? : the plitical economy of Australian development in a long-run perspective / Ray Broomhill -- 3. The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) : reinforcing re-peripheralisation / Patricia Ranald -- 4. Contesting...

This paper explores the role of nonmarket household services in the growth and development of the U.S. economy, in the period between 1870 and 1930. In the first section, we review previous efforts to estimate the value and composition of household output, and sketch a descriptive account of the...

Historical studies of labor segmentation have presented it as a predominantly post-World War 11 phenomenon. However, this view is based largely on the history of production workers in the manufacturing sector. Labor segmentation is closely related to differences in occupational characteristics...

Since the policy of "grasping the large, letting go of the small" was initiated in 1996, there has been a program of mass privatisation of China's rural industrial enterprises. This paper, based on interviews and survey data from three counties in Jiangsu and Shandong, analyses the process of...

This paper analyses the use of fringe financial institutions (FFIs), such as payday loan and check cashing providers, by urban Aboriginal people based on a survey undertaken in Prince George, British Columbia. We found that 60% of FFIs’ clients surveyed self-identified as Aboriginal. Their...