ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how and why the processes of labor control in the Third World, particularly the housewifization of labor, are being reimported into the core countries of industrial society to counter economic and ecological crises. Colonialism provided the material source for the increase of productivity of human labor, which then gave a boost to industrial expansion. The processes of colonization and capital accumulation have affected women negatively; they have also given rise to different forms and strategies of resistance. Patriarchy is a historical system of dominance of men over women. A different perspective of a new society cannot be based on capital accumulation or high tech or be bound up with modern consumerism; rather, it will emerge in the struggles for survival of Third World women. Poor women's resistance in the Third World against the destruction of the basis of their livelihood is not motivated only by narrow self-interest and provincialism.
