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Spinifex Press The Village and the World: My Life, Our Times
Maria Mies’ achievements include developing groundbreaking praxis and theory around the concept of “housewifisation”, the violence of colonisation and profound writings about ecofeminism. She fights the Multilateral Agreement of Investment, she fights the General Agreement on Trade in Services, she fights against the patenting of life and tackles reproductive and genetic engineering as well as food security, but she never gives up hope that there is an alternative to present day injustice and exploitation; that “the good life” is possible.
£17.95
Spinifex Press Lace Makers of Narsapur, The
The Lace Makers of Narsapur is a sensitive and groundbreaking study of women at the beginning of the process of globalisation. Maria Mies examines the way in which women are used to produce luxury goods for the Western market and simultaneously not counted as workers or producers in their fragmented workplaces. Instead they are defined as ‘non-working housewives’ and their work as ‘leisure-time activity’. The rates of pay are far below acceptable levels resulting in accelerating pauperisation and a rapid deterioration in their position in Indian society. The latest ‘economic boom’ in India was preceded by dispossession of farmers through the ‘green revolution’ and, alongside it, the dispossession of women, the lace makers of Narsapur in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
£17.95
