Non-capitalist sectors persist under capitalism because they supply services capital refuses to provide

Evidence

This has certain theoretical consequences for those articulated social formations where the non-capitalist sector is “able to fulfil functions that capitalism prefers not to assume in the under-developed countries” (see Wolpe’s development of this argument, above)—and thus for such societies as the South African one, where (as John Clammer extrapolates) “people who are obliged to become wage-labourers in a neoand quasi-colonial situation are forced back on the ‘traditional’ sector to obtain precisely those services which the capitalist does not provide.” Clammer correctly points out that this revives the “dual sector” analysis—though in a radically new form since, as Meillassoux argues, it is precisely the ideological function of “dual sector” theories to “conceal the exploitation of the rural community, integrated as an organic component of capitalist production” (Meillassoux 1972, 1974; for a more extended critique, Clammer 1975). — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 613

Categorization

• XREF: This is the functionalist-articulation mechanism that links directly to dual-sector economics and to the South African apartheid analysis; resonates with how informal sectors survive in modern economies.
• SEED: An essay angle: ‘dual sector’ theories as ideological concealment of exploitation — how economic frameworks that present separate spheres actually obscure capital’s integration of pre-capitalist labor.