Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
> 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