ABSTRACT
First published in 1982, this reissue deals with the theory of underdevelopment, as Dr. de Silva attempts a synthesis between the internal and external aspects of underdevelopment and, in the Marxist tradition, focuses on the impact of the external on the internal as the dominant reality.
Viewing underdevelopment as a problem in the non-transformation to capitalism, this analysis is in terms of the character of the dominant capital and of the dominant classes. Underdevelopment thus encompasses the ‘traditional’ peasant economy and also the export sector where the ‘modernizing’ influence of colonialism was felt. The book finally considers how the contemporary internationalization of capital affected the economies of the Third World.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction
part |133 pages
Investment Patterns in the Settler and Nonsettler Situations
chapter |22 pages
Economic Underdevelopment and the Settler/Nonsettler Dichotomy
chapter |32 pages
Economic Development in the Settler and the Nonsettler Colonies
chapter |26 pages
Settler Autonomy as a Basis of Growth Impulses
chapter |21 pages
Settler Growth and the Repression of Indigenous Interests
part |172 pages
The Plantation System and Underdevelopment
chapter |19 pages
Plantations and Their Metropolitan Orientation
chapter |32 pages
Problems of Labour Supply and the Recourse to Migrant Labour
chapter |38 pages
Problems of Labour Supply and the Recourse to Migrant Labour
chapter |24 pages
Plantations and Technological Stagnation
chapter |29 pages
Labour Relations in Plantations
part |164 pages
Towards a Theory of Underdevelopment