Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 304)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 304)

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The numbers of full-time day labourers are insignificant and
they constitute only 0.4% of the total agricultural labour
force. This figure shows quite clearly that agricultural
Pproletarianization 18S completely undeveloped in the north
Jordan Valley and is not a feature of the regional economy.
It might be possible to argue, however, that the seasonal
need for day labourers has brought limited forms of
proletarianization to the region, and these labourers
constitute more than a third of the total labour force. If we
take this point then we should be very careful not to to
imply that this 1s capitalist proletarianization (or
proletarianization proper). This limited form of
proletarianization does not entail capitalist relations of
production in agriculture, rather it is a restricted form of
the development of wage labour relations which are grafted
onto non-capitalist forms of production. This limited form of
wage labour is almost wholly restricted to the employment. of
women labourers. It is also a labour force which is extremely
mobile between the farms on which the labourers are employed;
with the workforce spending only a few days on any one farm
during the year.
For example, a group of four or five women who are recruited
under sub-contractors will work for 3 or 4 days on a farm
harvesting the crop and then they will move onto another
farm. The sub-contractor may have anything from 20 to 50
women working for him whom he hires out to different farmers.
The relations which these women face can be highly
exploitative as they receive a very low remuneration for the
backbreaking toil they carry out. This is not full blown
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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production

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Alex Pollock

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