Henry Bernstein

Development processes are never neutral. They impact various groups and classes of people differently. A high food price may benefit some rich peasants who produce and sell food surplus, but it may disadvantage landless rural laborers. A project on irrigation may benefit those who own the land, but not the landless tenants. Nowadays, official documents by governments and development agencies tend to lump different groups of people into vague categories like rural poor. This might be useful in some cases, but in large part this thinking can harm the poorest of the poor. Using Marx’s theory of capitalism, Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change argues that class dynamics should be the starting point of any analysis of agrarian change. It provides an accessible introduction to agrarian political economy while showing clearly how the argument for bringing class back in provides an alternative to inherited conceptions of the agrarian question. It illustrates what is at stake in different ways of thinking about class dynamics and the effects of agrarian change in today’s globalized world.

Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change

David Hulme

Philip Woodhouse

Pippa Trench

This text examines community-based natural resource management in Africa.

The Social Dynamics of Wetlands in Drylands

African Enclosures?

Tom Brass

T. J. Byres

This collection celebrates T.J. Byres' seminal contributions to the political economy of the agrarian question. Uniting the various themes is the demonstration of the continuing relevance of a critical, historical and comparative materialist analysis of agrarian question.

Essays in Appreciation of T.J. Byres

Agrarian Questions

pièce en trois actes, représentée pour la première fois, sur le théâtre de la Renaissance, le 7 décembre 1906

Le voleur

Henry Bernstein

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