11/10/2024
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In a detailed study of the process by which capitalism was established, Silvia Federici explains that it was the patriarchal order, and in particular the expropriation of women from their ancestral knowledge of care, their access to land and the negative codification of reproductive activities in the 16th and 17th centuries, that made the capitalist trajectory possible (against which heretical alternatives were positioned). She also explains that women’s exit from the factory after the first industrial revolution in the course of the 19th century owes little to the benevolence of the trade unions, but much more to the primitive accumulation process of capitalism, afflicted by low infant mortality and birth rates. Female factory workers gave way to unpaid housewives, assigned to the reproduction of the workforce, i.e. male children to be workers, fed, whitened and housed. In addition, a free sexual service for men to contain their frustrations at being dominated and satisfy their own needs for domination.
Silvia Federici insists on the wage as a capitalist invention that founds the production/reproduction division and thereby inscribes in the capitalist foundation a gendered division of labor between those who count and those who don’t.
Many ecofeminist authors use this concept, such as Ariel Salleh, who speaks of capitalist patriarchy, so as not to forget that while capitalism does not exist without patriarchy, patriarchy can thrive without capitalism.
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