Segments of Third World populations are increasingly being incorporated into new forms of production, market, and credit relations as part of capitalist development processes. This point is illustrated in Bangladesh, where rural women constitute new sources of labor and capital in the economy. The analysis of how and why this is occurring is placed in the context of local conditions and relations that shape and direct, as well as respond to, capitalist forms of penetration. The role of the state and the particular salience of development aid and assistance are also analyzed for the critical part they play in shaping and directing the incorporation of rural women into present day Bangladesh. (Author abstract, from PN-ABN-639)
