Women’s Work Is Devalued Under Capitalism
Women’s Work Is Devalued Under Capitalism
Apr 16 2026, 6:15 PM
Originally posted on Raddish with a good comment in response.
Dropping this one here also for anyone who isn't on Raddish to chime in. I’m not well versed in Marxism or Marxist feminism. I learned some things reading this article. I’d never heard of “social reproduction theory” before.
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.
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Originally posted on Raddish with a good comment in response.
Dropping this one here also for anyone who isn't on Raddish to chime in. I’m not well versed in Marxism or Marxist feminism. I learned some things reading this article. I’d never heard of “social reproduction theory” before.
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.