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Global Integration and Subsistence Insecurity

American anthropologist, 1994-03, Vol.96 (1), p.7-30 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright 1994 American Anthropological Association ;1994 American Anthropological Association ;1994 INIST-CNRS ;ISSN: 0002-7294 ;EISSN: 1548-1433 ;DOI: 10.1525/aa.1994.96.1.02a00010

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  • Title:
    Global Integration and Subsistence Insecurity
  • Author: Nash, June
  • Subjects: America ; Artisans ; Capitalism ; Capitalist development ; Commercial production ; Communities ; Corporations ; Developing countries ; Economic changes and development ; Economic crises ; Economic development ; Economic integration ; Economics ; Ethnology ; International economics ; Mining ; Morphological source materials ; Subsistence economy ; World economy
  • Is Part Of: American anthropologist, 1994-03, Vol.96 (1), p.7-30
  • Description: Global integration heightens the cyclical crises of capitalism by incorporating the subsistence sectors of advanced and peripheral economies. World trends show a contraction in industrial production, the rise of unemployment, an increase in military spending and decline in social welfare, a reversal of capital flows from developing countries to developed economies, and a worldwide drop in real wages. The impact of these trends on communities in Mexico, Bolivia, and the United States where the author has done fieldwork is assessed in relation to current economic crises and the social movements that respond to them. The author shows that collective action to oppose the devastating effect on subsistence is more prevalent in marginal economies that are just beginning to experience the effect of capital penetration than in the industrial wastelands of developed countries. Theories of the crisis neglect those arenas where resistance and protest are most active: the urban barrios struggling for food and water, the rural laborers forced off of their land base, and the hunters and cultivators of the jungle. Luxemburg's thesis asserting the importance of the subsistence sector in capital accumulation acquires increasing significance at a time when those economies are threatened with extinction. Expanding the notion of subsistence production to include nonwage work allows us to theorize the significance of social reproduction in crisis conditions.
  • Publisher: Oxford, UK: American Anthropological Association
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0002-7294
    EISSN: 1548-1433
    DOI: 10.1525/aa.1994.96.1.02a00010
  • Source: ProQuest One Psychology
    ProQuest Central
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