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9780333946008

Markets, Class and Social Change : Trading Networks and Poverty in Rural South Asia

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    9780333946008

  • ISBN10:

    0333946006

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2001-12-14
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

At the beginning of the 21st century an idealized view of markets informs government policy. Real differences in how markets interact with social change are obscured and public action on poverty is constrained. This book uses a detailed study of the grain trade in Bangladesh to show how socially-constrained patterns of market involvement may systematically benefit the rich while disadvantaging the poor. The book suggests that markets are implicated in the making of society, its division, identities, and directions.

Author Biography

Ben Crow is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Table of Contents

List of tables
viii
List of figures
x
Acknowledgements xiii
Glossary xv
Exploring market diversity
1(19)
How mud-floored markets illuminate `the market'
4(1)
From market thinking to market making
5(5)
Analyzing real markets
10(4)
Method
14(3)
Overview of the book
17(3)
Class and change in the South Asian countryside
20(26)
Contrasts of prosperity and exchange in two rural areas
20(6)
Agrarian change in rural South Asia
26(8)
Identification of peasant classes
34(2)
The partial separability of class and gender, household and individual
36(3)
Households and classes in rural Bangladesh
39(5)
Conclusions
44(2)
The diversity of exchange
46(42)
Traders, marketplaces and market circuits
48(7)
Transactions
55(3)
Transactions in two regions
58(3)
Common class patterns across diverse exchange conditions
61(3)
Interlocked transactions and the market architecture of the Noakhali chars
64(3)
Returns, risks and costs in interlocked transactions
67(12)
Conclusions: explanations and implications of exchange diversity
79(9)
Grain outflows: advantage rich, disadvantage poor
88(26)
A problem of `free market' prices
89(3)
Output, sales and payments in kind
92(3)
Noakhali chars: the peculiarity of exchange with sharecropping and closed trade
95(7)
Bogra: open trade and the Green Revolution
102(3)
Household grain storage patterns
105(3)
Seasonal participation and trader procurement
108(2)
Power, the seasons and interlinked transactions
110(3)
Conclusion
113(1)
The markets of adversity, or why the rich don't buy rice
114(23)
Independence of the rich: class patterns of grain inflow
115(3)
Why poor peasants pay high prices
118(2)
How poor and labor households get food
120(5)
Grain stocks, needs and vulnerability
125(2)
Consumer participation by class
127(6)
Conclusions
133(4)
Why are big traders big and small traders small?
137(37)
Scale and background of traders
139(5)
Processing: survival and accumulation
144(8)
Trade and lending: risk and survival
152(14)
Why are big traders big and small traders small?
166(5)
Conclusions
171(3)
Why is agrarian growth uneven?
174(21)
How surplus is appropriated
176(2)
Distribution of the grain surplus
178(7)
Nonagricultural incomes and cash payments
185(2)
Appropriation through finance
187(2)
Accumulation in trade
189(2)
Uneven growth nine years later
191(2)
Conclusions
193(2)
Local consequences of global policy
195(17)
Governments, markets and ruling ideas
196(4)
Liberalization in Noakhali: mills decline and crushers rise
200(3)
Liberalization in Bogra: `millgate procurement' and a market for public office
203(5)
Government action and consumer prices
208(2)
Global ideas and local institutions
210(2)
Diverse markets and public action
212(19)
Markets and social science
212(4)
Openings: identifying and exploring some omissions
216(3)
Contexts: social bases of exchange
219(5)
Practices: traders and transactions
224(4)
Light: socially situated markets and public action
228(3)
Appendix: Identifying class 231(14)
Notes 245(3)
References 248(10)
Index 258

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