...Joyce P. Jacobsen Capital Accumulation and Women's Labour in Asian Economies . By Peter Custers . London : Zed Books , 1998 . 401 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1163 course, is quick...

...Peter F. Bell Capital Accumulation in Thailand, 1855–1985 . By Suehiro Akira . Tokyo : The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies , 1989 . xviii , 427 pp. $34.66. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 215 one-way dependency...

...” in Asia. The example of Chinese history since the 1990s points to the resurgence of a Smithian circulation-centered approach that challenges the Eurocentric story of failure. Each of these approaches emerged out of distinct eras of capital accumulation in the twentieth century: mid-century state-supported...

... for the accumulation of capital on page 15. The correct sentence should read: In Marx's Capital , he summarized the movement of capital as “the transformation of money into commodities, and the change of commodities back again into [more] money”: M-C-Mʹ in his particular notation (Marx [1867] 1976, 250...

... focuses on the consumption trends that developed around three luxury goods: wristwatches, bicycles, and sewing machines. Chapter 2 discusses the Communist state's choice to prioritize capital accumulation after 1949. Chapter 3 explores the influence of the Soviet model of “state consumerism...

... accumulation around the globe” (p. 189). As such, he argues these findings “should dispel any easy formulas about the incompatibility of capitalism with itinerant merchant capital or immobile unfree labor. Both were crucial to patterns of intensive capital accumulation in the Chinese and Indian tea districts...

... account around the theme of class. As he asserts, "political change is inextricably linked to economic change . . . through the class forces which it generates" (p. 7). Capital accumulation leads to the development of a "commercial and entrepreneurial bourgeoisie"; this class then seeks to control...

... was more than twice as rapid as the most rapid growth rates known to exist in any country in the postwar period. Professor Kuark mentions briefly some of the possible reasons for this remarkable performance. He estimates that the volume of capital accumulation in South Korea has been similar...

... the consensus between industrialists and the government to have a planned economy, in which the state would provide the critical industrial inputs for private capital accumulation (chap. 4). Instead, as Chibber argues, the capitalists in India hijacked the planning efforts of the government, drained the state...

... has emerged from a multinational grouping of normsetting elites while capital accumulation in a single global market has assumed great importance. Capital accumulation has been argued to lead to capital concentration that fosters capital transnationalization which in turn fuels the process...

... of capital, and their land and buildings have been turned into financial instruments for capital accumulation. The overarching argument of the book is a Marxist one, that Indian cities are sites for “accumulation by dispossession.” Powerful local developers and foreign investors accumulate capital...

... how capital accumulation transpires via the internal constitutive outside “by grounding immobilized, racialized, and gendered subjects in territorially segregated” spaces (26). Queer Marxism thus recognizes that all social beings are differentially constituted through exclusions, which “resurface...

... of a complicated struggle for complicated souls. TESSA BARTHOLOMEUSZ Florida State University Capital Accumulation and Women's Labour in Asian Economies. By PETER CUSTERS. London: Zed Books, 1998. 401 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Peter Custers has written a thought-provoking book that considers how recent...

... of mobilized workers. Thus, Kerala's economy is stagnant; its most productive exports are its literate, ready-to-try-anything people. Does social development, therefore, come at the cost of capital accumulation and economic development (p. 9)? Heller largely falls into line with the first part of this story...

.... Finally, while the Third Five-Year Plan achieved some progress by virtue of market-oriented economic reforms, persistent problems such as inflation and a falling rate of capital accumulation pose severe obtacles for future development. The heart of Kimura's book are the two chapters in which he succinctly...

... was brought about by enterprising bureaucrats who formulated a policy of state action in areas unattractive to private capital in order to create conditions that would encourage and sustain private investment. Taiwan's traditional economy was not destroyed completely, but restructured in such a way that land...

... some of the possible reasons for this remarkable performance. He estimates that the volume of capital accumulation in South Korea has been similar to that in North Korea, but he believes that North Korea obtains more output from it. The North Koreans are innovative and their "command" economy more...

... of spendthrift, pretentious planters, and an impoverished rural proletariat. Rather than probing social formations, modes of capital accumulation, or regional ecologies for some causality underlying this contrast, Larkin prefers a descriptive cum narrative approach that simply ascribes social attributes...

... that "economic laws work in situations that are historically contingent" (p. 5). He draws from a large variety of English-language sources to assert that Japan is indeed different from Western economies, and situates those differences in a Marxian social structure of capital accumulation. Indeed, he identifies...

... attached to the hoarding of money and land because of the security, liquidity and prestige they afforded. This is well known, but its significance is not always made clear. For instance, Professor Yang mentions that "high interest rates would normally encourage large accumulations of capital;" he...