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Author Meillassoux, Claude.

Title Maidens, meal, and money : capitalism and the domestic community / Claude Meillassoux
Published Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981

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 MELB  306.30966 MEI-M  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 196 pages ; 24 cm
Series Themes in the social sciences
Themes in the social sciences.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface to the English translation -- Introduction -- Part I: The Domestic Community: 1. Locating the domestic community -- 2. Domestic reproduction -- 3. The alimentary structures of kinship -- 4. The dialectic of equality -- 5. Who are the exploited? -- 6. Contradictions and contacts: the premises of inequality -- Part II: The exploitation of the domestic community: imperialism as a mode of reproduction of cheap labour power: 7. The paradoxes of colonial exploitation -- 8. Direct and indirect wages -- 9. Primitive accumulation -- 10. Without hearth or home: the rural exodus -- 11. Periodic migration: the eternal return to the native land -- 12. The maintenance of labour-reserves -- 13. The double labour market and segregation -- 14. The profits from immigration -- 15. The limites of the over-exploitation of labour -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References cited -- Index
Analysis West Africa Economic conditions
Notes Includes index
Translation of Femmes, greniers et capitaux
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 162-188
Includes index
Notes Translation of: Femmes, greniers et capitaux
SUBJECT Fundamentals of pure and applied economics. Marxian economics section. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86733797
Subject Economic anthropology -- Africa, West.
Economic anthropology.
Labor supply -- Africa, West.
Marxian economics.
Marxist anthropology.
SUBJECT Africa, Western http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001688 -- Colonial influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005253
Africa, Western http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001688 -- Colonization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005562
Africa, Western -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001701
LC no. 79042615
ISBN 0521229022
0521297087 (paperback)
Other Titles Femmes, greniers et capitaux. English