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Examines Rural Wage Employment In Developing Countries, Particularly In Africa. Provides Critical Perspectives On Mainstream Approaches To Rural Development, And Analysis Of Agrarian Change And Rural Transformations From A Long-term Perspective. Challenges The Notion That Rural Areas Are Dominated By Self-employment, Purporting That This View Is Largely Due To Conceptual Frameworks And Statistical Conventions That Do Not Fully Capture Labour Market Participation. Provides Methodological Lessons To Study Rural Labour Markets. 1. Understanding Rural Wage Employment In Developing Countries / Carlos Oya And Nicola Pontara -- 2. Rural Labour Markets And Agricultural Wage Employment In Semi-arid Africa / Carlos Oya -- 3. Lifting The Blinkers / Christopher Cramer, Carlos Oya, And John Sender -- 4. Caught In The Grip Of The Market / Nicolas Pons-vignon -- 5. Disguised Employment? / Deborah Johnson -- 6. Tanzania's Rural Labour Markets / Bernd E.t. Mueller -- 7. The Policy Neglect Of Rural Wage Employment / Nicolas Petit And Matteo Rizzo -- 8. Labour Conditions In Rural India / Praveen Jha -- 9. Rural Households' Social Reproduction In China's Agrarian Transition / Qian Forrest Zhang -- 10. Structuring Rural Labour Markets / 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 / Sang Lee -- 13. Improving The Functioning Of Rural Labour Markets And Working Conditions / Carlos Oya And Nicola Pontara. Edited By Carlos Oya And Nicola Pontara. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.