‘Waiting for the call to prayer’: exploitation, accumulation and social reproduction in rural Java

This article analyses processes of exploitation, accumulation and social reproduction in rural Java. Using fieldwork a primarily agrarian predominantly non-agrarian village, it underlines the ways which pluri-active labouring class households contribute to through variety forms petty self-employment wage-labour – above all sharecropping female homework, is interwoven seamlessly with reproductive labour. Agrarian dominated by traders absentee capitalist landowners. Forms exploitation are linked capitalism's relationship capital-in-general. The briefly discusses potential for collective action given villages' relatively flat structures.