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Picking up themes from ''Patriarchy and Accumulation'', Mies's 1988 book ''Women: The Last Colony'' written with Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen and [[Claudia von Werlhof]] expanded on themes of domination bringing colonised people into the analysis. They explained that just as women were rendered invisible, subjugated people were isolated from mainstream society and were treated as a natural resource to be exploited.<ref name="Meintel" />{{rp|388}} Departing from a strict [[Marxist feminism|Marxist feminist]] argument, the central theme of the work was that the exploitation and oppression of women and colonised people were not secondary results caused by capitalism, but fundamental to creating the mechanisms of global production.<ref name="Meintel" />{{rp|388–389}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wilkinson-Weber |first1=Clare M. |title=Skill, Dependency, and Differentiation: Artisans and Agents in the Lucknow Embroidery Industry |journal=[[Ethnology (journal)|Ethnology]] |date=Winter 1997 |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=49–65 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_ethnology_winter-1997_36_1/page/n53/mode/1up |access-date=21 May 2023 |publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh Press]] |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |doi=10.2307/3773935 |jstor=3773935 |issn=0014-1828 |oclc=7781060900}}</ref>{{rp|50}} {{Lang|fr|[[Université de Montréal]]|italic=no}} anthropology professor, {{ill|Deirdre Meintel|wikidata|Q55626697}}, noted that Mies argued that labour exploitation was a primary factor in developing both social classes and economic divisions.<ref name="Meintel" />{{rp|390}} Meintel also noted that Mies's chapter 7, "Class Struggles and Women's Struggles in India", was "worth the price of the book", as it told of the successful resistance by women in [[Andhra Pradesh]], who aligned with male peasants' fight to protect their rights.<ref name="Meintel" />{{rp|390}}
''Ecofeminism'' (1993), witten by Mies and Vandana Shiva used a Marxist approach to evaluate climate change, loss of diversity, multi-systemic failures, and resistance. They evaluated how production systems and accumulation caused dispossession of land and culture, leading to problems such as world hunger.<ref name="Andrieu & Eliosoff">{{cite journal |last1=Andrieu |first1=Jimena |last2=Eliosoff Ferrero |first2=María Julia |title=Crisis multisistémicas y resistencias en los territorios latinoamericanos. Diálogo con Maria Mies y Vandana Shiva desde el ecofeminismo |journal=Cuadernos de Economía Crítica |date=2019 |volume=5 |issue=10 |pages=171–177 |url=https://doaj.org/article/d0baa90f891a4090ab1efd7dcf1c75d6 |access-date=20 May 2023 |trans-title=Multisystemic Crises and Resistance in Latin American Territories: Dialogue with Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva about Ecofeminism |publisher=Sociedad de Economía Crítica de Argentina y Uruguay |location=Buenos Aires, Argentina |language=Spanish |issn=2408-400X |oclc=9456617883}}</ref>{{rp|171–172}} Mies and Shiva argued that women were linked internationally by their common experiences related to capitalist expansion. According to the environmental scholar [[Catriona Sandilands]], unlike other ecofeminist works the book demonstrated that despite geographical differences and socio-economic variances "women's lives and bodies are being colonised" through capitalist mechanisms.<ref name="Sandilands" />{{rp|97–98}} The book was updated and republished in 2014, concluding that the issues were worsening instead of improving, and translated into Spanish in 2016.<ref name="Andrieu & Eliosoff" />{{rp|171–172}} Evaluating the links between technology and science and cultural development, Jimena Andrieu and María Julia Eliosoff Ferrero, noted that Mies and Shiva pointed out that globalisation has led to a crisis by [[Commodification|commodifying]] and [[Privatization|privatising]] everything to increase production and profits, thereby reducing human freedoms.<ref name="Andrieu & Eliosoff" />{{rp|173}} They argued that by placing nurturing of life and health as the focal point of economics, a balance between society, the economy, and the ecosystem is restored.<ref name="Andrieu & Eliosoff" />{{rp|174}} The re-issuance of the book sparked new debate on the roles of women in
[[File:Iceberg Model of Captitalist patriarchal Economics.png|alt=A diagram of a triangle representing the economy in patriarchal capitalist societies. The triangle mimics the shape of an iceberg, whereby the visible tip consists of paid wage labour and the hidden underside consists of the informal labour sector.|thumb|An illustration of the "iceberg model" from Mies and Bennholdt-Thomsen's 1999 book ''The Subsistence Perspective'']]
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