Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (50)

Introduction to the Special Issue: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change: Essays in Appreciation of Henry Bernstein (2016)
Journal Article
Campling, L., & Lerche, J. (2016). Introduction to the Special Issue: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change: Essays in Appreciation of Henry Bernstein. Journal of Agrarian Change, 16(3), 365-369. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12180

This special issue presents five essays and an interview in appreciation of Henry Bernstein. The essays – by major scholars in the field of agrarian political economy – engage with different aspects of Bernstein’s oeuvre: from direct critical reflect... Read More about Introduction to the Special Issue: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change: Essays in Appreciation of Henry Bernstein.

Development Failure and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh (2014)
Book
Jeffery, R., Jeffrey, C., & Lerche, J. (Eds.). (2014). Development Failure and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh. Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9789351507895

Development Failure and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh provides a qualitative, in-depth understanding of development failures and identity politics in Uttar Pradesh (UP). It investigates neoliberal change and political transformation in India thr... Read More about Development Failure and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh.

Introduction: Agrarian Questions and Left Politics in India (2013)
Journal Article
Lerche, J., Shah, A., & Harriss-White, B. (2013). Introduction: Agrarian Questions and Left Politics in India. Journal of Agrarian Change, 13(3), 337-350. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12031

The special issue develops the agenda of the relationship between agrarian transition and Left politics first discussed in a two-day workshop organized in July 2011, supported by the Economic Social and Research Council, Goldsmiths College University... Read More about Introduction: Agrarian Questions and Left Politics in India.

The Agrarian Question in Neoliberal India: Agrarian Transition Bypassed? (2013)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (2013). The Agrarian Question in Neoliberal India: Agrarian Transition Bypassed?. Journal of Agrarian Change, 13(3), 382-404. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12026

This paper re-interrogates the positions on the agrarian question in India, to reach fresh conclusions about important agrarian policies of the Left, including that of land reforms. Internationally, the classical political economy approach to agraria... Read More about The Agrarian Question in Neoliberal India: Agrarian Transition Bypassed?.

Labour Regulations and Labour Standards in India: Decent Work? (2012)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (2012). Labour Regulations and Labour Standards in India: Decent Work?. Global labour journal, 3(1), 16-39. https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v3i1.1111

The article assesses the ILO decent work agenda in the Global South: its objectives and coherence, its impact on labour relations and conditions, and its overall policy direction in relation to alternative labour rights and welfare policy thinking. T... Read More about Labour Regulations and Labour Standards in India: Decent Work?.

Questioni agrarie o questioni del lavoro? La questione agraria e la sue irrilevanza per il lavoro rurale nell'India neo-liberista (2012)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (2012). Questioni agrarie o questioni del lavoro? La questione agraria e la sue irrilevanza per il lavoro rurale nell'India neo-liberista. Sociologia del lavoro, 76-105. https://doi.org/10.3280/SL2012-128006

This article reinterrogates the positions on the agrarian question in India, to reach fresh conclusions about important agrarian policies of the left, including that of land reforms. Internationally, the classic political economy approach to agrarian... Read More about Questioni agrarie o questioni del lavoro? La questione agraria e la sue irrilevanza per il lavoro rurale nell'India neo-liberista.

The Unfree Labour Category and Unfree Labour Estimates: A Continuum within Low-End Labour Relations (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper
Lerche, J. The Unfree Labour Category and Unfree Labour Estimates: A Continuum within Low-End Labour Relations. Manchester

The article argues against the singling out of unfree labour as something wholly unique and entirely separate and different from other labour relations. Existing dichotomous approaches to free–unfree labour hinder a proper understanding of these labo... Read More about The Unfree Labour Category and Unfree Labour Estimates: A Continuum within Low-End Labour Relations.

Agrarian Crisis and Agrarian Questions in India (2011)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (2011). Agrarian Crisis and Agrarian Questions in India. Journal of Agrarian Change, 11(1), 104-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0366.2010.00295.x

The Indian government, academics and farmers all agree: Indian agriculture is in crisis. Annual agricultural growth rates fell to an all time low of 0.6 per cent per year during 1994/95–2004/05, usurious moneylending has made a comeback in the countr... Read More about Agrarian Crisis and Agrarian Questions in India.

Transnational Advocacy Networks and Affirmative Action for Dalits in India (2008)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (2008). Transnational Advocacy Networks and Affirmative Action for Dalits in India. Development and Change, 39(2), 239-261. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00478.x

In India, movements and parties representing the lowest ranking dalit caste groups have followed different strategies in their struggle against social, economic and cultural discrimination. In this article, a new dalit movement making use of a ‘trans... Read More about Transnational Advocacy Networks and Affirmative Action for Dalits in India.