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HISTORICAL MATERIALISM-RESEARCH IN CRITICAL MARXIST THEORY
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 76-106Publisher
BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/1569206X-00001934
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Marxism; procreation; social reproduction
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Marx is generally reckoned to have had too little to say about what has come to be defined as 'social reproduction', largely as a consequence of too narrow a focus on industrial production, and a relative disregard for issues of gender. This paper argues in contrast that the approach he developed with Engels and in Capital, Volume 1, provides a powerful framework for its analysis. After an introductory discussion of recent literature on social reproduction the second section sets out Marx's approach to the 'production of life, both of one's own in labour and of fresh life in procreation'. The third addresses his account of reproduction in Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 23. The fourth and fifth compare the relationship of the family to industry and exchange as depicted in Capital and in the present day respectively. The conclusion suggests some implications for theories of social reproduction.
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