Turning modes of production inside out: Or, why capitalism is a transformation of slavery

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-85

  Graeber, David ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Feudalism; Slavery; Wage labor; World systems analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748420378     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: 14603721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X06061484     Document Type: Article

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