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Assignment 4

Labor was given depending on gender and race, Morgan and Federici developed similar arguments regarding this concept. Both authors focused on the positions women had in the labor industry during the start of capitalism. Labor is the physical work where one expose their body to perform a task in exchange of a piece of valued printed paper that will allow them to fulfill the requisites of survival in a society. However, the intensity and effort one must do varies among each owner or boss leading the group of individuals. Some might not have any ambition of gaining power while other might have being advantageous and exploited its workers. Women were an easy target for the labor oppression. As Federici argued that each shift in the society such as the incrementation the prices of good and food as well as the jobs offered made inferior and powerless. Similarly, Morgan explains how the physical appearances of women deteriorated their value and were not respected by the descriptions of travelers which diffused race ideologies making owners of slaves discriminate and exploit the black race only by the way they look. People depend on what they can they do with their own hand in order to not starve, have a place to live and have a coexistence. However, the divisions created by the people due to their own concupiscence on humanity made labor unbalanced. White supremacy played a role on creating that distinction and women were given the domestic labor which when it comes to the entire system of labor their work is despised. In addition to their arguments, they both mentioned the way women played their role as mother while working. Some women will have to carry their babies on their backs as they also feed them. Their role as mothers was not taken as an important task to be perform but for them to exploit women in labor was of major importance. It was inevitable to not do any kind of work, the exceptions were not allowed. Under all the circumstances labor was a priority for the survival of the African women and men.