For many of us, the word ‘commons’ will bring up associations to natural resources as land, and perhaps to earlier times when the commoners, the lay people as peasants were called, were allowed to use the commons to find firewood and gather food. In Europe, the enclosure of those commons with the onset of privatisation in the 18th century put an end to this. The end of these communal forms of agriculture led to the precarization of women's lives in particular as it destroyed their means o...
