Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 262)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 262)

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CHAPTER 5: HOUSEHOLD SUBSISTENCE PRODUCTION AND LABOUR
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ORGANISATION AND LABOUR SUPPLY IN THE COMMODITY PRODUCING
SECTOR
In this chapter I want to show how household subsistence
Production and commodity production interact in a manner
which is beneficial to commercial capital. I also attempt to
bring out some of the policy options for mitigating some of
the worst aspects of this interaction as it affects peasants
generally and peasant women's subordination in particular. I
will then consider how labour is organised in the commodity
production sector and the pattern of labour supply in this
sector.
As I have stated previously, the main unit of labour supply
among the different forms of peasant modes of production in
the region is the peasant household. The direct implications
of this are that exploitation and the construction of social
relations with the external environment take place not
between individual producers and, for instance, landlords,
commercial capital and usurer capital, but between the
household as a whole and these external actors, i.e. the
household is a structure with economic tendencies based on
gender and age and these can be drawn out and articulated by
means of the realist method of analysis. Although the peasant
household faces economic exploitation, unequal exchange and
political subordination with this external economic
environment, it is wrong to conceptualise these general
relations of economic exploitation and political domination
as being distributed in a symmetrical manner within the
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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production

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Alex Pollock

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