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By S. Gill, I. Bakker

Written via major specialists from Europe, the Americas and Asia, this path-breaking paintings develops an leading edge and unique theorization of world political economic climate. whereas so much methods theorize worldwide political economic system from the views of strength and creation or states and markets, this paintings argues that what feminists name social copy is a extra simple framework, upon which so much varieties of strength and creation, and states and markets, needs to unavoidably leisure.

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In addition a growing rate of exploitation (more intensive work and longer hours in order to meet the same social needs) is associated with the restructuring of the family wage, the emergence of what has been termed the feminization of survival, and racialized and gendered patterns of exploitative migration. We see some of these developments as direct or indirect consequences of efforts to extend and institutionalize the power and security of capital – albeit at the expense of greater insecurity for most workers, particularly those women workers at the bottom of the global class and racial hierarchies.

This type of labor is estranged labor, and society – and therefore processes of social reproduction within society – becomes subordinated to an alien power. 4 In this sense commodification of social life and nature is itself an expression of and a means to extend a specific form of social power, and as such it encounters resistance, either in the form of movements for protection or in the context of what can be called socialization. It is in this historical sense that the pure commodification of society is a contradiction in terms (Polanyi 1957; van der Pijl 1998).

Indeed, these changes allow the ejidos or common lands to be bought and sold. The latter measures led to the Zapatistas declaring an armed rebellion on the day the NAFTA came into law on January 1, 1994 (Schneiderman 2000). In other words, the micro and macro (economic) in this analysis are linked structurally. In many respects such constitutional changes in Mexico are similar in this regard to World Bank/IMF reforms in so far as these mandate privatization of land and/or the elimination of subsidies for food and transport, often triggering so-called IMF riots.

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