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Unpaid Reproductive Labour: A Marxist Analysis

In: Contradictions: Finance, Greed, and Labor Unequally Paid

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  • Cecilia Beatriz Escobar Meléndez

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This article aims to discuss the effects of unpaid reproductive labour on labour productivity and production. We make use of a Marxist approach, recognising in its method and categories the necessary and adequate tools in order to disclose reality. Capitalism is regarded as patriarchal, and patriarchy as a set of social relations that dominate women and women’s labour-power for the benefit of men and capital. We argue that unpaid reproductive labour involves both class and gender struggles, which affect in a contradictory manner the capitalist accumulation process. Such assertion is reached by using an analytical instrument (based on linear algebra) developed in order to observe the impact that an insufficient fulfilment of the workers’ necessities has on labour productivity and production.

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  • Cecilia Beatriz Escobar Meléndez, 2013. "Unpaid Reproductive Labour: A Marxist Analysis," Research in Political Economy, in: Contradictions: Finance, Greed, and Labor Unequally Paid, pages 131-160, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rpeczz:s0161-7230(2013)0000028006
    DOI: 10.1108/S0161-7230(2013)0000028006
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