Modes of production and guaranteed annual income in James Bay Cree society
Colin H. Scott (Author)
This thesis analyzes the consequences for the domestic mode of production of the Cree-Montagnais of Quebec of its successive articulations with the Euro-North American capitalist economic and state formation. By examining the historical and ethnographic literature, and on the basis of our own case study at Paint Hills of the periods immediately prior to and following the implementation of a guaranteed income for hunters, we demonstrate the persistence of traditional relations of production through a series of changing productive forces and relations with the larger society. We are led to reject the idea that relations with the capitalist economy and the state lead a priori to the destruction or attrition of traditional relations of production. We show rather that at each step of articulation with, and dependence on, the capitalist economy and the state, relations of production in a domestic mode decisively structured the form and consequences of articulation
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 1979
McGill University Libraries, [Montreal], 1979