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Caliban and the Witch[edit]
Intro/Preface[edit]
Chapter 1[edit]
- Capitalism was the response to a long standing feudal crisis (p.14)
- Serfdom developed in 5th-7th century, as a result of fall of Rome. Was an enormous burden, but improvement on slavery (p.15-17)
- Women's dependence on men under feudalism was limited because main authority belonged to lords, land was generally given to the family unit, sexual division of labour was less pronounced. Female solidarity was also stronger. (p.18-19)
- Struggles existed between peasants and lords, over e.g. surplus produce, work for lords, access to common lands, taxes (p.20-24)
- Commutation was a game changer - made it harder to measure exploitation, divided the peasants. Women's access to property and income was reduced. Women therefore led the move to towns, and so gained access to many occupations (p.24-28)
- Effects of commutation led to rise of millenarian and heretic movement. Heresy was as much an attack on social hierarchies as the church (p.28-36)
- The heretic movement assigned high status (p.38-39)
- The Black Death was a turning point, intensifying previous labour struggles. Peasants gained more power. Wage differential between men and women fell (p.47-52)
Chapter 2[edit]
- By 1525 most rebellions crushed. By late middle ages feudal economy doomed. In response to this crisis EU ruling class launched global offensive offensive. Conquest, enslavement etc crucial to his process. Marx viewed this process of primitive accumulation from the perspective of the waged industrial proletariat (p.59-62).
- Federici argues expropriation of workers from means of subsistence and enslavement were not the only means by which a world proletariat was formed and accumulated. Also required a transformation of the body into a work-machine, and the subjugation of women to the reproduction of the work-force (p.62).
Chapter 3[edit]
- One of the pre-conditions for capitalist development was the process of an attempt by the state and church to transform the nature of the body. This process of developing a new concept of the body emerged in the philosophical and other cultural debates of the time. (p.139-140).
- This new conception of the body saw two sides to the body, the 'forces of reason' and the 'low instincts of the body' (p.141).
- According to Weber, the reform of the body was at the core of the bourgeois ethic. Marx too saw alienation from the body as a distinguishing trait of the capitalist work relation (p.141-142).
- However in the period of primitive accumulation workers resisted this process. A long process would be required to produce a disciplined work force (p.143)
References[edit]
TU Legislation[edit]
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