Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Authors' Note -- 1 Introduction: States, Markets, and Inequality -- 2 South African Society on the Eve of Apartheid -- 3 Social Change and Income Inequality Under Apartheid -- 4 Apartheid as a Distributional Regime -- 5 The Rise of Unemployment Under...

Introduction -- Economic history and modern India : redefining the link -- Rural labour and colonialism -- Agricultural labour : lessons from wage data -- Was there an industrial decline in India in the early nineteenth century? -- Labour-intensive industrialization -- Women and...