A quiet violence : view from a Bangladesh village
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A quiet violence : view from a Bangladesh village
（Third World books）
Zed Press , Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1983
- : uk
- : pbk
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Description
A quiet violence today stalks the villages and shanty towns of the Third World, the violence of needless hunger. In this book, two Bengali-seaking Americans take the reader to a Bangladesh village where they lived for nine months.
There, the readers meets some of the world's poorest people - peasants, sharecroppers and landless labourers - and some of the not-so-poor people who profit from their misery. The villager's poverty is not fortuitous, a result of divine dispensation or individual failings of charachter. Rather, it is the outcome of a long history of exploitation, culminating in a social order which today benefits a few at the expense of many.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Making of a Village
2. Behind Bamboo Walls
3. The Classes
4. Who Works? Who Eats?
5. Interventions
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