ABSTRACT
With the rapid industrialization in a number of countries in East and Southeast Asia, wage labour increases along with the proletarization of the relative surplus of agricultural labour. In many parts of the developing world, these changes do not usually lead to full or almost full proletarization compared with what happened earlier in Western countries. Small-scale production at the family level often absorbs a considerable amount of labour, which cannot be considered wage labour. Other people find employment in different kinds of informal production or services. The development differs from region to region in the world.
