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Libertarian Syndicalism with Tom Wetzel

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The Role of Families in Capitalism

People that do social reproduction of the working class because of their relationship not owning the means of production and being reliant on the decisions of the managerial class can also be included in that working class definition right? Sure because classes are families. One of the features of capitalism in the 19th century was that for a family a working class family to survive they had to send members out into the labor out to get jobsright? But at the same time capital capitalism has always shifted the cost of reproduction of cooking and cleaning houses and and taking care of the family onto women. Even though most women ended up being recruited into the wage labor force so the capital could expand the number of people they exploit still gender inequality

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