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5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Venue
SOAS - University of London
Room
G3 - Main Building
Event type
Seminar

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The rapid diffusion of electric washing machines in Japan had a marked impact on its reproductive regime (Fraser 2017) by reducing reproductive labor time and increasing ‘productive labour’ time. 

This paper locates the introduction of washing machines in farmers’ households within three key dynamics: the state-mediated dynamic of capitalist accumulation under US hegemony; the oppression of ‘junior wives’ in petty commodity-producing farming households; and elements of class-based commoning of new technology.

This Seminar is part of the Economics Seminar, Series Spring 2025.

Speaker

  • Fumi Iwashima (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University)

Header image credit: Tianshu Liu via Unsplash.

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