Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 264)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 264)

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Simultaneous and correlative changes in the hierarchical
ordering of the sexual] division of labour, the form and
content of women's subordination and women's role in the
sexual division of labour.
We have seen how peasant relations of production are
constituted, by and large, through the peasant family
consisting of husband, wife(s). sons, daughters and other
dependent relatives who function within the household and
sexual division of labour as a “collective work unit", part
of whose combined product is normally appropriated by
landlords, merchants and/or usurers and other non-producers.
The household unit is often conceptualised as being composed
of two elements which very generally relate to women's’ and
men's work in the sexual division of labour, i.e. a domestic
component and a public component. (2) The domestic component
consisting mainly of a sphere of women's work in which they
largely contribute to the subsistence economy of the
household. On the other hand, the public sphere is largely
dominated by male agriculturalists and is predominantly
linked to the production of use-values for exchange on the
agricultural commodity market rather than to meet the
subsistence requirements of the peasant household. There is a
serious error in conceptualising these two realms as
autonomous spheres of women's work and men's work, since, in
terms of concrete relationships, they are completely
integrated and interdependent. It is much more appropriate to
conceptualise these spheres in terms of specific economic
sectors, viz. the subsistence production sector and the
commodity production sector and then treat the particular
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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production

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Alex Pollock

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