Tithi Bhattacharya In Addition To Susan Ferguson — Deepening Our Agreement Of Social Reproduction Theory

Probably non of involvement to all but worth posting for those interested inwards a contemporary Marxian approach.

When nosotros embarked on our projection to explore Social Reproduction Theory (SRT), at the dorsum of our require heed was the phrase from the Marx as well as Engels’ German linguistic communication Ideology, ‘[human beings] must endure inwards a grade to alive inwards monastic tell to endure able to ‘make history’’. In degree societies, since in that place lies betwixt ‘living’ as well as ‘making history’ webs of social relations that enable as well as inhibit life, Marxism has e'er been almost theorising both. Indeed, 1 tin instruct equally far equally to tell that historical materialism seeks to demo how access, or lack thereof, to life-making resources inwards a degree lodge shapes the making of history. SRT takes this interrogation of life-making really seriously as well as that is, merely put, its specific inflection on Marxist theory equally a whole.

But what is life-making exactly?

One manner to answer that interrogation is via the category of labour power, or the capacity to labour. Capitalism equally a organisation is a unity of 2 kinds of social processes: the production of commodities as well as the production of workers who scope those commodities. Workers are ‘produced’ inwards a double sense, through biological reproduction as well as equally bearers of labour power. SRT concerns itself alongside grasping the dynamics involved inwards both ‘productive’ processes....

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Deepening our Understanding of Social Reproduction Theory
Tithi Bhattacharya as well as Susan Ferguson

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