Housework and Capital Accumulation

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Hetero patriarchal nuclear family was mass production isms instrument for obtaining and reproducing a stable work force. The home was also experienced, of course, as a refuge from the work place and from the market, and a place for both love and intimacy. How how did those two seemingly contradictory purposes of the domestic sphere, to quote, produce both life and labor power, coexist? And what? What role, then, dod the family play? As you write in privatizing political problems as social problems? Imeanwev again, we've had this insight in some form since socialist feminism,. if not now in the seventies, if not longer, that in some way, the

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