The urban subproletarian female now exemplifies the international division of labor
Evidence
If the peasant insurgent was the victim and the unsung hero of the first wave of resistance against territorial imperialism in India, it is well known that, for reasons of collusion between pre-existing structures of patriarchy and transnational capitalism, it is the urban subproletarian female who is the paradigmatic subject of the current configuration of the International Division of Labor. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1836
Categorization
- SEED: A compressed thesis — patriarchy colluding with transnational capital to make the Third-World woman capitalism’s paradigmatic subject — that could seed an essay on how ‘strategic essentialism’ functions in today’s supply-chain activism.
- XREF: connects to: Women form the true surplus labor army under the current international division of labor. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1002; Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them; Global migrant labor relies on and amplifies cities as racialized representational sites