seize the means of reproduction

research notes from feb 2010

Reproducing the Global Factory Political Economy of Reproductive Labour in London and New York Theoretical analysis of the uniquely interesting position both politically and epistemologically held by waged / unwaged reproductive workers in the context of a general reproductive labour regime emerging in New York and London Workers and worker organisations offer reflections on the specificities of neo-liberal reproductive work – LABOUR CONTENT // POLITICAL CONTENT Privatised,...

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Offer some tentative analysis and suggestions as to the effects of neo-liberalism on contemporary reproductive labour in the home. Relates to materialist feminist and post colonial reading of the home. Materialist feminist critique of traditional and current Marxist theory about precarity and labour. Post colonial anyalsis of the ‘gains’ of women in the north. My point of departure is the contemporary home and that the possibility of new political alliances and modes of reproduction...