Silva, S B D De. <br/><br/>
The political economy of underdevelopment/ 
S B D De Silva 
 - London:  Routledge,  2013. 
 - viii, 645 p. ;  22 cm. 
 - International library of sociology. .
<br/><br/>1. Economic Underdevelopment: a Politico-Historical Perspective<br/><br/>Part I: Investment Patterns in the Settler and Non-Settler Situations <br/><br/>2. Economic Underdevelopment and the Settler/ Nonsettle Dichotomy <br/><br/>3. Export Staples and their Contrasting Impact on Development - the Settler and the Nonsettler Regions <br/><br/>4. Economic Development in the Settler and the Nonsettler Colonies: Differences in Scope and Orientation <br/><br/>5. Settler Autonomy as a Basis of Growth Impulses <br/><br/>6. Settler Growth and the Repression of Indigenous Interests<br/><br/> Part II: The Plantation System and Underdevelopment <br/><br/>7. Plantations and their Metropolitan Orientation<br/><br/>8. Problems of Labour Supply and the recourse to Migrant Labour: I. Labour Shortages and Non-availability of Indigenous Labour <br/><br/>9. Problems of Labour Supply and the recourse to Migrant Labour: II. The Response of the Indigenous Labour to the Plantation System <br/><br/>10. The Scale of Plantation Operations and Productive Efficiency - A Distorted Image <br/><br/>11. Plantations and Technological Stagnation <br/><br/>12. Labour Relations in Plantations <br/><br/>Part III: Towards a Theory of Underdevelopment <br/><br/>13. The Framework and Mechanisms of Metropolitan Control<br/><br/>14. The Domination of Plantation Interests by Merchant Capital: Agency House-Plantation Relations <br/><br/>15. Merchant Capitalism and Underdevelopment <br/><br/>16. Plantations, Economic Dualism and the Colonial Mode of Production <br/><br/>17. The Political Economy of Underdevelopment 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415851367 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Developing countries	<br/>Economic history	<br/>Plantations	<br/>Labor supply<br/>Economic development
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.9  / SIL/P