Table of Contents

1. Introduction  2. The Labour Question in the Gold Coast, 1870-1906  3. British Nitrate Companies and the Emergence of Chile’s Proletariat, 1880-1914  4. Proletarianisation in Mozambique  5. The Creation of a Proletariat on Peru’s Sugar Plantations: 1880-1920  6. The Political Economy of Semi-Proletarianisation Under Colonialism: Sudan 1925-50  7. Poverty, Proletarianisation and the Production of Uneven Development: A Kenyan Village  8. Peasants or Proletarians? The Transformation of Agrarian Production Relations in Egypt  9. Agro-Industry, State Policy and Rural Social Structures: Recent Analyses of Proletarianisation in Brazilian Agriculture  10. The Development of Capitalism and the Making of the Working Class in Colonial Indochina, 1870-1940  11. Proletarianisation in the World Order: The Peruvian Experience  12. The Formation and Development of the Working Class in Argentina, 1857-1919  13. Vanguard of the Proletariat? Communists and Unions in Shanghai and Bombay, 1927-1929