Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour

by Maria Mies

Book Overview

'It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other non-wage labourers as slaves, contract workers and peasants in the colonies - constitutes the perennial basis upon which 'capitalist productive labour' can be built up and exploited.'

First published in 1986, Maria Mies's progressive book was hailed as a major paradigm shift for feminist theory,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783601698
• ISBN13: 9781783601691
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"