Obliging Need: Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism

by Scott Cook and Leigh Binford

For centuries throughout large portions of the globe, petty agriculturalists and industrialists have set their physical and mental energies to work producing products for direct consumption by their households and for exchange. This twofold household reproduction strategy, according to both Marxist and neoclassical approaches to development, should have disappeared from the global economy as labor was transformed into a producer as well as a consumer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292740689
• ISBN13: 9780292740686
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"