Quote:Nancy Fraser describes them as capitalism’s background conditions — forms of labor and social life that the system depends on but refuses to recognize as part of itself. Much of this work takes place in the private sphere, especially in the family. It is there that workers are produced and reproduced, not only biologically but socially and emotionally. Without this sphere, capitalism could not survive. Yet capitalism constantly erodes the very conditions it relies on by expanding into new areas of life in search of profit, pulling care, family, and social relations into the market.