Maria Mies: Difference between revisions

In ''The Subsistence Perspective'' (1999), Mies and Bennholdt-Thomsen argued that subsistence production, the production of [[goods]] and [[Goods and services|services]] for personal or community use, has been devalued, hidden, and [[marginalised]] by capitalist systems. Using the "iceberg model", they noted that the only visible labour in a traditional capitalistic society is that of the formal labour force. Hidden below the surface, the base of the iceberg represents unpaid domestic work, [[Care work|caring]], and [[Informal economy|informal labour]],<ref name="Kazuo">{{cite journal |last1=Kazuo |first1=Suzuki |script-title=ja:つの経済の分析枠組み |journal={{lang|ja|季刊経済理論|italic=no}} / Political Economic Quarterly |date=2019 |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=48–62 |doi=10.20667/peq.56.2_48 |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/peq/56/2/56_48/_pdf |access-date=21 May 2023 |trans-title=Analytical Framework for Two Economies |publisher=[[Musashi University]] for the Economic Theory Society |location=Tokyo, Japan |language=Japanese |issn=1882-5184 |oclc=9648139033}}</ref>{{rp|59}} which includes various forms of untaxed labour such as micro-entrepreneurs, child labourers and family members who work for other family members, and non-permanent workers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Packard |first1=Truman G. |last2=Koettl |first2=Johannes |last3=Montenegro |first3=Claudio |title=In from the Shadow: Integrating Europe's Informal Labor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KG0i36x16boC&pg=PA2 |date=2012 |publisher=World Bank Publications |location=Washington, D.C. |isbn=978-0-8213-9550-9}}</ref>{{rp|2}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perez-Lopez |first1=Jorge |last2=Schoepfle |first2=Gregory |title=The Informal Sector and Worker Rights |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PvS1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA2 |date=1993 |publisher=U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs |location=Washington, D.C. |oclc=1225668698}}</ref>{{rp|2}} They argued in favour of a society in which, instead of delegating labour-intensive work to certain segments of the population, communities shared all tasks.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dreysse |first1=Carmen |title=Geneviève Pruvost, Quotidien Politique. Féminisme, écologie, subsistance |journal=Les comptes rendus / Lectures |date=2022 |doi=10.4000/lectures.53857 |url=https://journals.openedition.org/lectures/53857 |access-date=21 May 2023 |trans-title=Geneviève Pruvost, Political Daily. Feminism, Ecology, Subsistence |publisher=[[École normale supérieure de Lyon]] |location=Lyon, France |s2cid=246312772 |language=French |issn=2116-5289 |oclc=9396193148}}</ref> The sharing model would give each person a basic income, some security, and a measure of power in decision-making.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kanji |first1=Nazneen |title=Mind the Gap: Mainstreaming Gender and Participation in Development |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep18134 |date=2003 |publisher=[[International Institute for Environment and Development]] |location=London |chapter=Preface |pages=vii–xii |chapter-url=http://www.jstor.com/stable/resrep18134.3|isbn=978-1-84369-466-3}}</ref>{{rp|xi}} The book was called an "excellent feminist source on political economy" by the sociologist [[Ariel Salleh]] of [[Western Sydney University]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Salleh |first1=Ariel |author-link=Ariel Salleh |title=Reviewed Work: The Politics of Money: Towards Sustainability and Economic Democracy by Frances Hutchinson, Mary Mellor, Wendy Olsen |journal=[[Organization & Environment]] |date=September 2003 |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=395–398 |doi=10.1177/10860266030163010 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26162484 |access-date=21 May 2023 |publisher=[[SAGE Publishing]] |location=Thousand Oaks, California |jstor=26162484 |s2cid=220752627 |issn=1086-0266 |oclc=7851086801}}</ref>{{rp|396}}