Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-188) and index.
The Domestic Community -- Locating the domestic community -- Why incest? -- The band and the relations of adhesion -- Mating and filiation -- Protected women, abducted women -- Domestic reproduction -- The level of the productive forces -- The constitution of the relations of production -- The constitution of the relations of reproduction -- The alimentary structures of kinship -- The reproduction of human energy or the process of production: energy -- subsistence -- energy -- Surplus-labour -- The circulation of offspring -- The dialectic of equality -- The circulation of wives and bridewealth -- Bridewealth as wives' claims -- Identical exchange -- Incipient value -- Who are the exploited? -- Women -- Juniors -- Contradictions and contacts: the premises of inequality -- The exploitation of the domestic community: imperialism as a mode of reproduction of cheap labour power -- The paradoxes of colonial exploitation -- Direct and indirect wages -- Primitive accumulation -- Without hearth or home: the rural exodus -- Periodic migration: the eternal return to the native land -- The maintenance of labour-reserves -- The double labour market and segregation -- The profits from immigration -- The limits of the over-exploitation of labour -- The poverty datum line -- The objective criterion for the division of the proletariat -- Competition.