Series: Critique Influence Change

In this groundbreaking work, two world-renowned scholars argue that ecological destruction and industrial catastrophes constitute a direct threat to everyday life, the maintenance of which has been made the particular responsibility of women. In both industrialised societies and developing countries, the new wars the world is experiencing, violent ethnic chauvinisms, and the malfunctioning of the economy also pose urgent questions...

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, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a...

Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new unilateral capitalist era following the collapse of the Soviet model, and the apparent triumph of the market and globalization. Amin's...