Summary Of Capitalism By Joan Acker

In the article 14 Acker breaks down how capitalism works and its history. The two major routes to racialized and sexualized capitalism that Joan Acker describes in the first two paragraphs are Industrial Capitalism that emerged in American society with white males and second these are embedded and replicated through the gendered substructures of capitalism such as paid production activities and unpaid domestic activities.Capitalism is a system in which a small group of individuals control capital and make important decisions for everyone. The small group of people are mostly white males which own the means of production, and pay low wages to their workers. Segregation within Capitalism has been going on since its creation. As we prosper through