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PILER

Silver Jubilee Distinguished Lectures

Professor Emeritus Jan Breman
Amsterdam School  of Social Science Research

Wishing away Poverty, or the Poor?

Friday, 13 April, 2007

Regent Plaza Hotel & Convention Centre, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi

Tea:       5:30  PM
Lecture: 6:30 PM

Regrets to: Abbas Haider
Tel: 635-1145 & 46-47
Email:  piler at cyber.net.pk


Jan Breman (1936) majored in the Social Sciences at the University  of
Amsterdam and specialized in South and Southeast Asian Studies. In
1962 he became a staff member, later Professor at Erasmus University
(the former Netherlands Economic School) in Rotterdam, where he held a
chair in the sociology of development. His transfer in 1987 to
Amsterdam University, where he taught comparative sociology, coincided
with the establishment of the Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam,
where he became Scientific Director. From 1992 to 1998 he was
vice-dean of the Amsterdam School of  Social Science Research.
Jan Breman has been a visiting professor in India (Institute of
Economic Growth, Delhi) and in Indonesia (Agricultural University,
Bogor), and has traveled widely on short-term academic visits to other
Asian countries including Pakistan. Spread over a period of forty-five
years, Breman has conducted anthropological research in India (South
Gujarat) and  Indonesia (West Java) focusing on rural and urban labor
relations.
Some of his publications: Of Patronage and Exploitation (1974),
Control of Land and Labour in Colonial Java (1983), Of Peasants,
Migrants and Workers (1985), Taming the Coolie Beast (1989), Rural
transformations in Colonial Asia (1991), Beyond Patronage and
Exploitation (1993), Wage Hunters and Gatherers in the Landscape of
Labour in India (1994) and Footloose Labour. Working in India's
Informal Economy (1996).
Recent publications include: The World View of Industrial Labor in
India (2000); Down and Out, Labouring under Colonial Capitalism
(2000); The Labouring Poor in India: Patterns of Exploitation and
Exclusion, 2003; Making and Unmaking of an Industrial Working Class:
Sliding Down the Labour Hierarchy in Ahmedabad, India (2004).
Publications honouring Jan Breman�s intellectual contributions include
Evading the Dilemmas, Development and Deprivation in Gujarat (2002),
and Work and Social Change in Asia (2003).
Professor Breman has guided PILER  over several years, most recently
in research on bonded labour in South  Asia for Anti-Slavery
International.

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