Acknowledgements ... ix Introduction: Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies ... 1 Part 1: Reviews 1 Reinventing India? ... 33 2 Saints and Sinners ... 44 3 Seeing Ghosts ... 51 4 Brief Encounters with Class ... 56 5 Interns Interned ... 59 6 Marxist Academics and Liberal Hypocrisy ... 62 7 Backing into the Limelight ... 68 8 A Marxist Defence of Marxist Theory ... 73 9 Houellebecq, Anthropologist? ... 77 Part 2: Review Essays 10 The Struggle of/(over) Post-emancipation Rural Labour (‘At Their Perfect Command’?) ... 85 11 Shifts and Stasis in Development Studies ... 106 12 Zomia, or a Postmodern History of Nowhere ... 140 13 The Populist Drift of Global Labour History ... 157 Part 3: Essays 14 The Sabotage of Anthropology and the Anthropologist as Saboteur ... 181 15 How Agrarian Cooperatives Fail: Lessons from 1970s Peru ... 192 16 Capitalism Bonded Labour in India: Reinterpreting Recent (Re-)Interpretations ... 239 17 The Unsaying of Marxism: Capitalist Accumulation and Unfreedom ... 292 18 Academia as Mode of Seduction, or the Elephant in the Socialist Room ... 312 19 The Industrial Reserve Army: What’s Not to Like? ... 354 Bibliography ... 385 Author Index ... 425 Subject Index ... 433

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