Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 288)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 288)

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that the welfare of families is most often best secured when
women have a source of cash income, as they are much more
likely to spend this income on the health and nutrition of
the family than are men, who are more likely to spend extra
income on consumer goods and prestige items. (24) Suffice it
to say for the moment that development work aimed at
assessing the impact of income-generation for women should
not be ignorant of the issue of women's control over their
own production and resource allocation. Income-generation
based on the development of capitalist production and
exchange projects will not lessen the burden of labour of
women. It will certainly generate income for women but it
will do so while turning them into wage-slaves, if the
general experience of other Third World countries is
relevant.
In the following two sections I will focus attention on the
organisation of labour and labour supply in the commodity
production sector of the regional economy.
III. THE ORGANISATION OF LABOUR IN COMMODITY PRODUCTION
The north Jordan Valley economy is very specialised and has a
number of features of a regional export-enclave economy. It
specialises in the production of a limited number of
vegetable crops for the internal West Bank market and the
Jordanian export market. The reason for the development of
this specific form of economy goes back to the early 1970's
when the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and Oxfam (two
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Alex Pollock

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