Land, Labor, and Rural Poverty
Author: Pranab K. Bardhan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780231053891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTextbook on land economics, rural workers, agricultural credit, production relations and rural area poverty, with reference to India - examines peasant farmer labour supply, labour force participation of woman workers, measurement of unemployment, labour demand of agricultural workers, wages, labour-tying, and bonded labour, sharecropping and tenancy issues, social stratification and children mortality; discusses land ownership as an obstacle to irrigation-based agricultural development. Graphs, references, statistical tables.