V. I.

Lenin

The Capitalist System of Modern Agriculture

IV

Labour of Women and Children in Agriculture

... they carry on agriculture. Generally speaking, women’s labour predominates also in the peasant farm, and it is only in the
big peasant and capitalist enterprises that men constitute the majority.

There are in general fewer women among wage-workers than among family
workers. Obviously, the capitalist cultivators in all the groups are among
those farmers who obtain the best labour forces. If the predominance of
women over men can be taken as a measure of the straitened circumstances of
the farmer and of the unsatisfactory state of a farm that has no
possibility of using the best labour forces (and this supposition
inevitably follows from all the data on women....

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