Women form the true surplus labor army under the current international division of labor.

Evidence

It is a well-known fact that the worst victims of the recent exacerbation of the international division of labor are women. They are the true surplus army of labor in the current conjuncture. In their case, patriarchal social relations contribute to their production as the new focus of super-exploitation. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1002

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Marx’s reserve army of labor concept and to the Sri Lanka T-shirt example in this chapter (para 1021), which empirically grounds the claim. — connects to: The urban subproletarian female now exemplifies the international division of labor — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1836

Broader Connections

• The urban subproletarian female now exemplifies the international division of labor #exemplifies (0.85) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1836