Social Reproduction Theory

Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

Tithi Bhattacharya

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780745399881
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786801586
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child care, health care, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality, all of which are central to understanding the relationship between economic exploitation and social oppression. In this book, leading writers such as Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser, David McNally and Susan Ferguson reveal the ways in which daily and generational reproductive labour, found in households, schools, hospitals and prisons, also sustains the drive for accumulation. Presenting a more sophisticated alternative to intersectionality, these essays provide ideas which have important strategic implications for anti-capitalists, anti-racists and feminists attempting to find a path through the seemingly ever more complex world we live in.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword by Lise Vogel
• 1. Introduction: Mapping Social Reproduction Theory: Tithi Bhattacharya
• 2. Crisis of Care? On the Social-Reproductive Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism: Nancy Fraser
• 3. Without Reserves: Salar Mohandesi and Emma Teitelman
• 4. How Not to Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class: Tithi Bhattacharya
• 5. Intersections and Dialectics: Critical Reconstructions in Social Reproduction Theory: David McNally
• 6. Children, Childhood and Capitalism: A Social Reproduction Perspective: Susan Ferguson
• 7. Mostly Work, Little Play: Social Reproduction, Migration, and Paid Domestic Work in Montreal: Carmen Teeple Hopkins
• 8. Pensions and Social Reproduction: Serap Saritas Oran
• 9. Body Politics: The Social Reproduction of Sexualities: Alan Sears
• 10. From Social Reproduction Feminism to the Women’s Strike: Cinzia Arruzza
• Notes
• Index