Peasant poverty and persistence

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Part I: Introducing the BookForeword by Meghnad Desai Introduction -- Julio Boltvinik and Susan Archer Mann Part II: PapersSession I: Theoretical Perspectives on Peasant Poverty and Persistence1. Poverty and Persistence of the Peasantry. Background Paper -- Julio Boltvinik 2. Rethinking Rustic Issues. Contributions to a Theory of Contemporary Peasantry -- Armando Bartra 3. From Field to Fork: Labour Power, its Reproduction, and the Persistence of Peasant Poverty -- Gordon Welty, Susan Mann, James Dickinson and Emily Blumenfeld 4. Baroque Modernity and Peasant Poverty in the Twenty-first Century -- Luis Arizmendi Session II: Historical and Empirical Approaches5. Agriculture/industry, Rural/urban, Peasants/workers: Some Reflections on Poverty, Persistence and Change -- Henry Bernstein 6. Employment and Rural Poverty in Mexico -- Araceli Damián and Edith Pacheco Session III: Environment, Food Crisis and Peasants7. From the Persistence of the Peasantry in Capitalism to the Environmentalism of Indigenous Peoples and the Sustainability of Life -- Enrique Leff 8. South American Peasants and Poor Farmers Facing Global Environmental Change: A Development Dilemma -- Elma Montaña 9. Financialisation of the Food Sector and Peasant's Persistence -- Kostas Vergopoulos Session IV: Policy, Self-reliance and Peasant Poverty10. The Rise and Fall of the Agrarian Welfare State: Peasants, Globalisation, and the Privatisation of Development -- Farshad A. Araghi 11. Overcoming Rural Poverty from the Bottom Up -- David Barkin and Blanca Lemus Part III: Closing the Book12. Dialogues and Debates on Peasant Poverty and Persistence: Around the Background Paper and Beyond -- Julio Boltvinik. Part I: Introducing the BookForeword by Meghnad Desai Introduction -- Julio Boltvinik and Susan Archer Mann Part II: PapersSession I: Theoretical Perspectives on Peasant Poverty and Persistence1. Poverty and Persistence of the Peasantry. Background Paper -- Julio Boltvinik 2. Rethinking Rustic Issues. Contributions to a Theory of Contemporary Peasantry -- Armando Bartra 3. From Field to Fork: Labour Power, its Reproduction, and the Persistence of Peasant Poverty -- Gordon Welty, Susan Mann, James Dickinson and Emily Blumenfeld 4. Baroque Modernity and Peasant Poverty in the Twenty-first Century -- Luis Arizmendi Session II: Historical and Empirical Approaches5. Agriculture/industry, Rural/urban, Peasants/workers: Some Reflections on Poverty, Persistence and Change -- Henry Bernstein 6. Employment and Rural Poverty in Mexico -- Araceli Damián and Edith Pacheco Session III: Environment, Food Crisis and Peasants7. From the Persistence of the Peasantry in Capitalism to the Environmentalism of Indigenous Peoples and the Sustainability of Life -- Enrique Leff 8. South American Peasants and Poor Farmers Facing Global Environmental Change: A Development Dilemma -- Elma Montaña 9. Financialisation of the Food Sector and Peasant's Persistence -- Kostas Vergopoulos Session IV: Policy, Self-reliance and Peasant Poverty10. The Rise and Fall of the Agrarian Welfare State: Peasants, Globalisation, and the Privatisation of Development -- Farshad A. Araghi 11. Overcoming Rural Poverty from the Bottom Up -- David Barkin and Blanca Lemus Part III: Closing the Book12. Dialogues and Debates on Peasant Poverty and Persistence: Around the Background Paper and Beyond -- Julio Boltvinik.