the problem with eco mystics (Shiva, Mies, etc)

[Rakesh Bhandari]

Just another reading note.In Peter Custers' new Accumulation and Women's
Labour in Asian Economies (Zed), there is a critique of Mies for
overestimating the extent of formal deproletarianization of women (how
much labor is farmed out as piecework for housewives); of Shiva for
completely mystifying women's precapitalist labour as purely subsistence
based and life giving, as nature itself,  and
continuing the mystification of the class nature of the labor performed by
a certain *class* of women into the present. There is also a discussion of
the centrality of Japanese in the proletariat as vast reserve army of
labor and a fascinating discussion of new production systems in terms of
Marx's concept of the turnover time of capital.
best, picardo garcia-rubinstein