Obliging Need : : Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism / / Scott Cook, Leigh Binford.

For centuries throughout large portions of the globe, petty agriculturalists and industrialists have set their physical and mental energies to work producing products for direct consumption by their households and for exchange. This twofold household reproduction strategy, according to both Marxist...

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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1990
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (338 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Petty Production in Third World Capitalism Today
  • 2. Agriculture and Craft Production: An Expedient Relationship
  • 3. Obliging Need: Craft Production and Simple Reproduction
  • 4. Beyond Simple Reproduction: The Dynamics of Peasant-Artisan Differentiation
  • 5. Gender, Household Reproduction, and Commodity Production
  • 6. Intermediary Capital and Petty Industry in the City and the Countryside
  • 7. Petty Industry, Class Maneuvers, and the Crisis of Mexican Capitalism
  • Postscript
  • Appendix. Review of the Oaxaca Valley Small Industries Project
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index