Labour Relations and Relational Labour: Care, Ontology and Social Reproduction
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As the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated capitalâs inherent carelessness, notions of âcareâ continue to underpin political struggles and invigorate the Marxist tradition. This article examines how we might conceive of care and the labour of care â carework â in a present defined by intersecting economic, ecological and epidemiological crises. What might a historical-materialist concept of care reveal about contemporary capitalism? Does such a concept have any emancipatory potential?
Care or the absence of care suffuses the myriad labour-processes that make ourselves and our world. Recognising the âdual nature of care as relation and labourâ is politically and theoretically imperative. How broad careâs remit is, and how and where it intersects (or does not intersect) with Marxist theory and practice, are vital contemporary debates within the historical-materialist tradition. This article argues that just as social-reproduction theory represents a necessary extension of historical materialism, âcareâ likewise represents a necessary extension of social-reproduction theory, an extension that also addresses theoretical gaps within Marxism.
Contemporary social-reproduction theory involves âdecentring housework ⦠and foregrounding the contradictions posed to capital by the reproduction of lifeâ. In this article, I will argue that the very root of lifeâs reproduction is care. More than merely a means of decentring housework, care is both the ontological ground of human relationality and ground zero for radical action and thought.
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Labour Relations and Relational Labour: Care, Ontology and Social Reproduction
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Abstract
As the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated capitalâs inherent carelessness, notions of âcareâ continue to underpin political struggles and invigorate the Marxist tradition. This article examines how we might conceive of care and the labour of care â carework â in a present defined by intersecting economic, ecological and epidemiological crises. What might a historical-materialist concept of care reveal about contemporary capitalism? Does such a concept have any emancipatory potential?
Care or the absence of care suffuses the myriad labour-processes that make ourselves and our world. Recognising the âdual nature of care as relation and labourâ is politically and theoretically imperative. How broad careâs remit is, and how and where it intersects (or does not intersect) with Marxist theory and practice, are vital contemporary debates within the historical-materialist tradition. This article argues that just as social-reproduction theory represents a necessary extension of historical materialism, âcareâ likewise represents a necessary extension of social-reproduction theory, an extension that also addresses theoretical gaps within Marxism.
Contemporary social-reproduction theory involves âdecentring housework ⦠and foregrounding the contradictions posed to capital by the reproduction of lifeâ. In this article, I will argue that the very root of lifeâs reproduction is care. More than merely a means of decentring housework, care is both the ontological ground of human relationality and ground zero for radical action and thought.
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