The Domestic Political Economy of Six Family Farms

Abstract

The case studies presented in this chapter develop the themes raised in the previous analysis by examining some of the ways in which patriarchal labour relations are taken up, built upon and reshaped by the commoditisation process. The analysis examines the domestic political economy of six case study farms in terms of the framework set out at the end of Chapter 3. This includes the household structure of those living and working on the farm; the composition of the principal and subsidiary labour circuits on the farm in terms of the participation of family and hired labour; linkages with external capitals in the farm production and reproduction processes; the circulation of income and money-capital between household and enterprise and the structure of capital and land ownership on the farm in terms of kin and, where appropriate, non-kin interests.