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Title:Women Writers in South Africa
Author:McFadden, PatriciaISNI
Year:1983
Periodical:Journal of African Marxists
Issue:4
Period:September
Pages:54-62
Language:English
Geographic term:Southern Africa
Subjects:women workers
women's work
Women's Issues
Literature, Mass Media and the Press
literature
Abstract:The specific character of capitalist development in Southern Africa - the movement of cheap black male labour from the states of the region to South Africa, which is the centre of capitalist production - has determined and shaped the conditions of women's survival and their transformation into proletarians in certain sectors of the capitalist economy. With the levels of subsistence production falling continuously, multinational capital has tended to prefer female labour to male labour. The implications of this for working class struggles and for the reproduction of black labour (male and female) on the one hand, and for state repression and company profits on the other, is the main focus of this article, with particular emphasis on the position of woman. Content: women as reproducers of cheap black labour in non-capitalist agriculture - women workers in capitalist agriculture in Swaziland - conclusion: women and change in Southern Africa. Notes, sum. in French and Portuguese.
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