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  • 4 - Household Sustainers

  • Peter Lockwood, University of Manchester
  • Book:
    Peasants to Paupers
    Published online:
    24 December 2025
    Print publication:
    29 January 2026, pp 131-156
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    Chapter 4 turns towards the role of women’s work in reproducing the household, focusing on the labour of relation-making in the neighbourhood as a means of creating economic networks through which material assistance can be sought. Commenting on anthropological literature that frames African contexts as ones of ‘mutuality’ and ‘obligation’, the chapter discusses the difficulty of finding assistance for aspirational projects (especially school fees) in an atomised neighbourhood where families compete for the prestige of economic advancement. It remarks upon the possibilities and limits of caring labour as a means through which women enter into economic relations of mutual support with others.