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