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A detailed and comprehensive analysis of small-scale peasant and artisan enterprise in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico.

Table of 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
  • Map. Valley of Oaxaca

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/09/1990
      ISBN13: 9780292740686, 978-0292740686
      ISBN10: 0292740689

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A detailed and comprehensive analysis of small-scale peasant and artisan enterprise in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico.

      Table of 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
      • Map. Valley of Oaxaca

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