petty commodity production

(MARXISM) the production of goods for the market (commodities) by people who own the means of production but who may not usually hire waged labour. In non-Marxist terms these people are self-employed producers. The term simple commodity production usually means the same. The term is sometimes used for the economic activity of PEASANTS and has been much discussed as applicable to small-scale producers in contemporary THIRD WORLD cities. See COMMODITIES AND COMMODITY PRODUCTION.

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The work features a number of nuanced articles examining topics ranging from petty commodity production in India to labor protests in Chinese factories.

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(1.) The social relations of capitalism include centrally those of gender in all its diverse forms, not least gender divisions of property, labour and income in petty commodity production in farming.

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Russell sheds light on the nature of the economy and changes in the modes of production that accompanied the destruction of pre-colonial societies based on feudal agricultural and petty commodity production in what is now Mexico and subsistence economies based on hunting, fishing, trapping, and agriculture in what are now Canada and the USA.

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The way Perez links his discussion of fisheries policy to petty commodity production is unique in that many works joining state policy to capitalist and other forms of production give an instrumentalist view of the state.

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The vagaries of weather, pest infestations, market cycles, and the inherent variability of this sort of petty commodity production meant that Indian producers required constant access to credit to stay in the market.

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Petty commodity production tends to overlooked or regarded as transient, and yet it has been growing at a rapid rate.

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In contrast, when applying the term to productive enterprises the majority of NGOs define "community business" as either collective production or petty commodity production in which -- and this is the crucial point -- producers own the means of production.

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Their introduction marked the beginning of mass production displacing petty commodity production, as well as unskilled and artisan labor.

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The author, however, does not give an), reason why the petty commodity production approach, for example, would not adequately deal with the phenomena he found in Jakarta.

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Both Dobb and Hilton, in various ways, suggested that the dissolution of feudalism and the rise of capitalism resulted from the liberation of petty commodity production from the fetters of feudalism, with the help of class struggle between lords and peasants.

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Jennifer Alexander and Paul Alexander, in "Trade and Petty Commodity Production" argue that in heavily rural Kebumen (central Java), "the labour force statistics suggest that at least a third of .

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