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The New Proletarians: Third World Reality and First World Categories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Frances Rothstein
Frances Rothstein
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Towson State University
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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.

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Peasant Workers
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , April 1986 , pp. 217 - 238
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1986

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