Rural wage employment in developing countries : theory, evidence, and policy

1. Introduction : understanding rural wage employment in developing countries / Carlos Oya and Nicola Pontara -- 2. Rural labour markets and agricultural wage employment in semi- arid Africa : evidence from Senegal and Mauritania / Carlos Oya -- 3. Lifting the blinkers : a new view of power, diversity, and poverty in Mozambican rural labour markets / Christopher Cramer, Carlos Oya, and John Sender -- 4. Caught in the grip of the market : past and present of rural wage workers in South Africa / Nicolas Pons-Vignon -- 5. Disguised employment? Labour market surveys, migration and rural employment in Southern Africa / Deborah Johnston -- 6. Tanzania's rural labour markets : the missing link between development and poverty reduction / Bernd E.T. Mueller -- 7. The policy neglect of rural wage employment : the cases of Rwanda and Ethiopia / Nicolas Petit and Matteo Rizzo -- 8. Labour conditions in rural India : reflections on continuity and change / Praveen Jha -- 9. Rural households' social reproduction in China's agrarian transition : wage employment and family farming / Qian Forrest Zhang -- 10. Structuring rural labour markets : a case study from North East Brazil / Ben Selwyn -- 11. Employment instability and the restructuring of rural and rural-urban labour markets in two Latin American export industries / Sutti Ortiz -- 12. The ties made in the harvest : Nicaraguan farm worker networks in Costa Rica's agricultural exports / Sang Lee -- 13. Improving the functioning of rural labour markets and working conditions : towards a policy agenda / Carlos Oya and Nicola Pontara