Private Farmers vs. Landless Peasants in Rural Uzbekistan, with Franco Galdini

This is the sixth episode of our new podcast.Find here the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth episodes.In this episode, Paolo is speaking to Dr.Franco Galdini, a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham. A political economy scholar, Franco is the author of “Rise of the Surplus Population? Land Decollectivization, Class Stratification, and Labor Precarization in Uzbekistan,” an article published by International Labor and Working Class History, a leading journal in labor studies, in a 2023 special issue [available in open access].