Peel does not critique explicitly the implicit violence within capitalism, as these authors do with respect to racism and economic exploitation, nor does he do a good job of placing the economic context of suburban Australian poverty with a global or colonialist perspective as he could have by emphasizing less the positive aspects of multiculturalism and more the negative aspects of cultural stigmatism within capitalism. At the same time, his discussion is based more on an urban environment rather than, like Wood, on the peasant community (Wood 2003). It is also far more limited in historical scope than McNally's comprehensive viewpoint which traces capitalism through centuries (McNally 2002). Peel gives some indication of a critique of capitalism in his discussion of worker displacement and the shutdown of blue-collar factories which an urban example of what Woods is talking about. Furthermore, Peel does do some justice to the gender dimension by talking about the different effects that poverty has on male and females. Yet he does not go far enough in showing how exploitative capitalism really is. This occurs only by placing Peel's final thrust on social justice and migrant communities in a broader analytical framework. Surely he would agree that capitalism has the tendency to exploit by being geared overly toward individualistic advantages and supported by a political structure ruled with its aims of efficiency, accountability, and surveillance. Therefore, Peel's lesser stress on these issues still falls within the same line of argument as Wood and McNally, who would claim that capitalism is by nature not benevolent for the exploited classes. Yet one wishes that he had said more.
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