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Authored Books

Alpa, Shah, Lerche, Jens, Axelby, Richard, Benbabaali, Dalel, Donegan, Brendan, Raj, Jayaseelan and Thakur, Vikramaditya (2018) Ground Down by Growth. Tribe, Caste, Class, and Inequality in Twenty-First Century India. London and New Delhi: Pluto Press. (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

Shah, Alpa, Lerche, Jens, Axelby, Richard, Denbabaali, D., Donegan, Brendan, Raj, Jayaseelan and Thakur, Vikramaditya (2017) Ground Down by Growth: Inequality in 21st century India. London: Pluto Press. (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Jeffery, Roger, Jeffrey, Craig and Lerche, Jens, eds. (2014) Development Failure and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh. Delhi: Sage.

Jeffery, Roger and Lerche, Jens, eds. (2003) Social and Political Change in Uttar Pradesh: European Perspectives. New Delhi: Manohar (India).

Byres, T.J., Kapadia, Karin and Lerche, Jens, eds. (1999) Rural Labour Relations in India. London: Frank Cass. (Library of Peasant Studies)

Book Chapters

Lerche, Jens and Shah, Alpa (2023) 'Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India.' In: Roy, Indrajit, (ed.), Passionate politics. Development, politics and India’s general election 2019. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Lerche, Jens (2022) 'Grounding Labour Regimes Analysis in Agrarian Political Economy.' In: Baglioni, Elena, Campling, Liam, Coe, Neil M. and Smith, Adrian, (eds.), Labour Regimes and Global Production. Newcastle: Agenda Publishing. (Economic Transformations)

Axelby, Richard (2017) 'Gaddis and Gujjars in Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh.' In: Shah, Alpa, Lerche, Jens, Axelby, Richard, Benbabaali, Dalel, Donegan, Brendan, Raj, Jayaseelan and Thakur, Vineet, (eds.), Ground Down by Growth: Inequality in 21st century India. London: Pluto Press, pp. 143-175. (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

Lerche, Jens (2014) 'Regional patterns of agrarian accumulation in India.' In: Heyer, Judith and Harriss-White, Barbara, (eds.), Indian Capitalism in Development. London: Routledge, pp. 46-65. (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

Lerche, Jens (2010) 'From ‘Rural Labour’ to ‘Classes of Labour’: Class Fragmentation, Caste and Class Struggle at the Bottom of the Indian Labour Hierarchy.' In: Harriss-White, Barbara and Heyer, Judith, (eds.), The Comparative Political Economy of Development. Africa and South Asia. London: Routledge, pp. 66-87. (Routledge studies in development economics, 77)

Lerche, Jens (2003) 'Hamlet, Village and Region: Caste and Class Differences between Low-Caste Mobilization in East and West UP.' In: Lerche, Jens and Jeffery, Roger, (eds.), Social and Political Change in Uttar Pradesh. European Perspectives. New Delhi: Manohar, pp. 181-198.

Lerche, Jens and Jeffery, Roger (2003) 'Uttar Pradesh: Into the Twenty-First Century.' In: Lerche, Jens and Jeffery, Roger, (eds.), Social and Political Change in Uttar Pradesh. European Perspectives. New Delhi: Manohar, pp. 17-53.

Lerche, Jens (2000) 'Dimensions of Dominance: Class and State in Uttar Pradesh.' In: Fuller, C. J. and Bénéï, Véronique, (eds.), The Everyday State and Society in Modern India. Delhi: Social Science Press, pp. 91-114.

Journal Article

Lerche, Jens (2021) 'The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 48 (7). pp. 1380-1396.

Pattenden, Jonathan, Campling, Liam, Castañón Ballivián, Enrique, Gras, Carla, Lerche, Jens, O'Laughlin, Bridget, Oya, Carlos, Pérez Niño, Helena and Sinha, Shreya (2021) 'Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 21 (3). pp. 582-590.

Lerche, Jens and Shah, Alpa (2021) 'Capitalism and Conjugated Oppression: Race, Caste, Tribe, Gender and Class in India.' Anveshi Broadsheet (15). pp. 13-15.

Shah, Alpa and Lerche, Jens (2021) 'Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India.' British Journal of Sociology, 72 (1). pp. 93-105.

Shah, Alpa and Lerche, Jens (2020) 'Migration and the Invisible Economies of Care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India.' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45 (4). pp. 719-734.

Lerche, Jens and Alpa, Shah (2018) 'Conjugated oppression within contemporary capitalism: class, caste, tribe and agrarian change in India.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 45 (5-6). pp. 927-949.

Campling, Liam and Lerche, Jens (2016) 'Introduction to the Special Issue: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change: Essays in Appreciation of Henry Bernstein.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 16 (3). pp. 365-369.

Lerche, Jens (2013) 'The Agrarian Question in Neoliberal India: Agrarian Transition Bypassed?' Journal of Agrarian Change, 13 (3). pp. 382-404.

Lerche, Jens, Shah, Alpa and Harriss-White, Barbara (2013) 'Introduction: Agrarian Questions and Left Politics in India.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 13 (3). pp. 337-350.

Lerche, Jens, Guérin, Isabelle and Srivastava, Ravi (2012) 'Guest editors' introduction.' Global Labour Journal, 3 (1). pp. 1-15.

Lerche, Jens (2012) 'Labour Regulations and Labour Standards in India: Decent Work?' Global Labour Journal, 3 (1). pp. 16-39.

Lerche, Jens (2012) 'Questioni agrarie o questioni del lavoro? La questione agraria e la sue irrilevanza per il lavoro rurale nell'India neo-liberista.' Soliolologia Del Lavoro (128). pp. 76-105.

Lerche, Jens (2011) 'Agrarian Crisis and Agrarian Questions in India.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 11 (1). pp. 104-118.

Lerche, Jens (2008) 'Is Forced Labour an Isolated Problem in Developing Countries?' Development Viewpoint (8).

Lerche, Jens (2008) 'Transnational Advocacy Networks and Affirmative Action for Dalits in India.' Development and Change, 39 (2). pp. 239-261.

Lerche, Jens (2007) 'A Global Alliance against Forced Labour? Unfree Labour, Neo-Liberal Globalization and the International Labour Organization.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 7 (4). pp. 424-52.

Lerche, Jens (2000) 'Stating the Difference: State, Discourse and Class Reproduction in Uttar Pradesh, India.' Development and Change, 31 (4). pp. 857-87.

Kapadia, Karin and Lerche, Jens (1999) 'Introduction to Journal of Peasant Studies volume 26.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 26 (2/3). pp. 1-9.

Lerche, Jens (1999) 'Politics of the poor: Agricultural labourers and political transformations in Uttar Pradesh.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 26 (2/3). pp. 182-241.

Lerche, Jens (1998) 'Agricultural Labourers, the State and Agrarian Transition in Uttar Pradesh.' Economic and Political Weekly, 33 (13). A29-A35.

Lerche, Jens (1997) 'Is Bonded Labour a Bound category? Reconceptualising Agrarian Conflict in India.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 22 (3). pp. 484-515.

Monographs and Working Papers

Bosc, Igor, Lerche, Jens, Shah, Alpa, Fajerman, Miranda and Wadhawan, Neha (2022) Understanding patterns of structural discrimination of migrant and other workers in some countries of South and West Asia. Geneva: ILO Background Paper.

Lerche, Jens and UNSPECIFIED (2017) The Triple Absence of Labour Rights: Triangular Labour Relations and Informalisation in the Construction and Garment Sectors in Delhi and Shanghai. London: SOAS University of London.

Lerche, Jens (2011) The Unfree Labour Category and Unfree Labour Estimates: A Continuum within Low-End Labour Relations. Manchester: Manchester Papers in Political Economy , CSPE.

Lerche, Jens, Pincus, Jonathan and Weeks, John (2004) Poverty Reduction Strategy Process and National Development Strategies in Asia: A Report to DFID. London: Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS University of London.

Book Reviews

Shah, Alpa and Lerche, Jens (2015) 'India’s Democracy: Illusion of Inclusion.' Economic and Political Weekly, 50 (41). pp. 33-36.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Lerche, Jens and Shah, Alpa (2022) Interview : Jens Lerche and Alpa Shah. Catharsis issue 29 [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Lerche, Jens (2021) Jat Power and the Spread of the Farm Protests in Northern India. The India Forum [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Shah, Alpa and Lerche, Jens (2020) Five issues hidden behind the exodus of India’s migrant labour under the Covid-19 lockdown. Geography Directions [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Shah, Alpa and Lerche, Jens (2020) The five truths about the migrant workers’ crisis: Opinion. Hindustan Times [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Other

Lerche, Jens (2015) 'ILO campaigns: missing the wood for the trees?' Open Democracy: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery.

Lerche, Jens (2015) 'Making India? The Labour Law Reforms of Narendra Modi’s Government.' South Asia Notes, SOAS South Asia Institute Blog . SOAS University of London.