This book focuses on the relationship between economic growth in Third World agriculture and the employment of bonded labour

Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 30, No. 4
"Make no mistake. This is some book. One of the best I have read for some time... The challenge of this book should be read, studied and appreciated by all scholars of labour, migration or development."
"a very important contribution to contemporary and historical studies of workers, and class relations into which they are inserted and against which many of them struggle"
International Review of Social History