The New Proletarians: Third World Reality and First World Categories
- 1 April 1986
- journal article
- peasant workers
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Vol. 28 (2) , 217-238
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500013839
Abstract
Although wage work has been present in the third world for some time, more people in that world are selling more of their labor today than ever before. Anthropologists and other social scientists have dealt with this increase in the amount of wage labor by using a variety of concepts, including urbanization, migration, and proletarianization. Recently, the concept of the peasant-wor-ker has appeared in the literature with greater frequency and a new meaning. This study examines one current use and discusses some of the problems associated with it.Keywords
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