Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. 1. Petty Production in Third World Capitalism Today 1
6. 2. Agriculture and Craft Production: An Expedient Relationship 35
7. 3. Obliging Need: Craft Production and Simple Reproduction 58
8. 4. Beyond Simple Reproduction: The Dynamics of Peasant-Artisan Differentiation 113
9. 5. Gender, Household Reproduction, and Commodity Production 152
10. 6. Intermediary Capital and Petty Industry in the City and the Countryside 190
11. 7. Petty Industry, Class Maneuvers, and the Crisis of Mexican Capitalism 215
12. Postscript 236
13. Appendix. Review of the Oaxaca Valley Small Industries Project 243
14. Notes 251
15. Bibliography 279
16. Index 301