In previous societies, women's work was often distinguished from men's work. They didn't do exactly the same things, but did it more or less in the same space of the extended household Or community. But with the emergence of capitalism, and especially these various victorian ideologies,. then you should have got the idea that female domesticity wasn't really working at all. This is all a huge mystification.
Featuring Nancy Fraser on why a total analysis of capitalism requires taking Marxism beyond a narrowly economistic view: what everyday labor exploitation requires from politics, care work, war-making, borders, appropriation of nature, sexism, racism, and more. Dan's 2018 interview from the archives.
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