Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Community.

Abstract

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.