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Re:My Family’s Slave by snowwrestler on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @01:20AM (#14355843)
And who owned the farm? In many such societies, only the husband--meaning the wife's work was still uncompensated.

The problem of uncompensated labor by women does not break down neatly on the borders of economic concepts like captitalism, agrarian, industrial, etc.

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Re:My Family’s Slave by efaref on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @10:14AM (#14358585)
I thought mostly the farm was owned by landlords, with the people who worked there (male or female) being tenant farmers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenant_farmer

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Re:My Family’s Slave by int_19h on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @01:54AM (#14355987)
For more on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverture
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