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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
