Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale

''It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other non-wage labourers as slaves, contract workers and peasants in the colonies - constitutes the perennial basis upon which "capitalist productive labour" can be built up and exploited.''

First published in 1986, Maria Mies''s progressive book was hailed a...