Primitive Accumulation and the Labor Subsidies to Capitalism

Tamar Diana Wilson
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Tamar Diana Wilson: University of Missouri, St. Louis

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2012, vol. 44, issue 2, 201-212

Abstract: It is argued in this paper, following the insights of Rosa Luxemburg and others, that primitive accumulation is a constant and ongoing process integral to capital accumulation. Concentrating on workers who are raised and sustained in times of unemployment by subsistence agriculture or informal income-generating activities by self or family members, often women, it is seen how their labor is commodified. The recurrent migration of parts of this global reserve army of labor, whether internally or transnationally, provides a variety of subsidies to capitalist enterprise.JEL classification: J16, J61, D13

Keywords: primitive accumulation; capitalist accumulation; labor migration; recurrent migration; labor subsidy to capitalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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