Way of organizing production—a set of social relations through which labor is deployed to wrest energy from nature by means of tools, skills, and knowledge.
social relations through which human labor is used to transform energy from nature using tools,
skills, organization, and knowledge. This concept originated with anthropologist Eric Wolf, who was
strongly influenced by the social theorist Karl Marx. Marx argued that human consciousness is not
determined by our cosmologies or beliefs but instead by our most basic human activity: work.
Domestic, tributary, capitalist
