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.

Globalization and Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses

1) My approach entailed three (connected) steps in relation to (i) the nature of petty commodity production and its tendency to class differentiation; (ii) the specificities of agriculture and how capitalism pushes against both ecological and social constraints on capitalised/'industrialised' farming; (iii) how 'peasants' in the South and 'family farmers' in the North are located in the international divisions of labour of imperialism and their mutations.

'Farewells to the peasantry?' and its relevance to recent South African debates

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.

James W. Russell, Class and Race Formation in North America

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.

The State and Small-Scale Fisheries in Puerto Rico

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.

Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750-1821

Secondly, it is necessary to examine the literature on the development of petty commodity production in African societies in order to determine the place of women within the 'informal' sector.

WOMEN IN AFRICAN LABOUR HISTORY

shopkeepers, artisans and small entrepreneurs who engaged in petty commodity production in the bazar.

IRAN AND THE ISLAMISTS

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

DEVELOPMENTAL STALEMATE IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN: SOME CONCEPTUAL TOOLS FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS

In the introductory chapters a theoretical overview is attempted in which the author criticises the dualism of the `informal sector' approach to analysis of the Third World small enterprise as well as attempts to analyse these businesses from the perspective of petty commodity production.

Small Business in Indonesia

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.

From opportunity to imperative: the history of the market

1) Nor does this appear to be a trifling disagreement, since it is important to In the Shadow of Agriculture's argument about the extent of petty commodity production that it should be established that there was a large category of people dependent on wages for their subsistence and on the circulation of commodities for what they consumed.

In the Shadow of Agriculture: Non-Farm Activities in the Javanese Economy, Past and Present

In the first chapter of the book, the author explains that he is not concerned with the process of industrialisation and female labour employed at different levels of work, but that he is interested in forms of production and women's employment in large-scale production, petty commodity production, marginal small production, and self-employment in the informal sector.

I. S. A. Baud. Forms of Production and Women's Labour: Gender Aspects of Industrialisation in India and Mexico