Rural Women's Subsistence Production in the Capitalist Periphery

Carmen Diana Deere and Carmen Diana Deere
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Carmen Diana Deere: Dept. of Agricultural Economics University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California
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Review of Radical Political Economics, 1976, vol. 8, issue 1, 9-17

Abstract: Rural women's subsistence production in the capitalist periph ery allows semi-proletarian male workers to sell their labor power to capitalist units of production for less than a subsistence familial wage. Thus, women's contribution toward the maintenance and reproduction of labor power within the rural labor reserve permits the non-capitalist mode of production to absorb the costs of production and reproduction of labor power. The division of labor by sex, based on the articulation between modes of production, serves to lower the value of labor power for capital, enhancing the relative rate of surplus value for peripheral capital accumulation.

Date: 1976
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