Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 317)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 317)

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exploiter of the day labourers. The labour of women workers
in particular is exceptionally exploitative. Subcontractors
normally receive 3 Jordanian dinars (approximately US$10) per
day per worker. They will then deduct the costs of
transportation, which is normally a truck or Volkswagon owned
by the subcontractor, and pay each women around 150 old
Israeli shekels per day (approximately US$3-4). While this
subcontracting can represent a lucrative business venture for
the contractor over ae short-term period, it hardly
constitutes a stable source of livelihood for her/him, since
the season only lasts for two or three months at most even if
s/he is mobile between different regions where the
agricultural season comes at different phases.
SUMMARY
In this chapter I have attempted to focus on the importance
ef household subsistence production and the manner in which
it is articulated to the commodity production sector in such
a way that it can operate as a hidden income equivalent which
can serve to intensify the exploitation of families in the
commodity production sector by external economic and
commercial forces; in realist terms this showed that the
subsistence sector can act as a mechanism through which
merchant capital can increase its rate of exploitation of the
commodity production sector. I also attempted to bring out
the importance of women's role in the subsistence sector. In
Section II, I attempted to bring out some of the implications
for undertaking development intervention in the subsistence
sector in terms of dependency, class and gender. In sections
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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production

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Alex Pollock

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