Marx, Housework, and Alienation

Kain, Philip J.

doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1993.tb00631.x

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“…Originally, in the Marxist view, housework was considered unproductive because being productive means to produce surplus value exploited by capitalists (Alessandrini, 2012, p. 11; Kain, 1993). Based on “socially necessary labor time”, Marx (1991) devised the concept of value as a unit to measure commodity value consisting of cost price and surplus value.…”

Section: Materialistic Monism and Blurring Value Of Unpaid Work At Home By Care Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this context, the main focus of the domestic labor debate is to define how surplus value is generated by housework and what mechanisms are involved. The debate proposes that the mechanism of exploitation of housework value is via the work force of husbands and children who consume the value (Kain, 1993). Through this logical deduction, shedding new light on the act of (re)producing labor power, women who do housework can be recognized as a quasi‐labor class (Molyneux, 1979; Seccombe, 1974).…”

Section: Materialistic Monism and Blurring Value Of Unpaid Work At Home By Care Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Pluralistic insight on care value: Exuding from sharing gift of unpaid work at home

Koo

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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This article aims at elaborately comprehending the value of unpaid work at home so as to envision social reconstruction of care. This study reviews two puzzles: being sieged by materialistic monism and the ambivalence of care theory in applying to everyday empirical world which have hitherto made the value of unpaid work at home invisible. Thus, by reconsidering own dignity and purpose of the privatefamilial sphere in one's life (Elshtain, 1993) and to elaborately comprehend care value, this study addresses the puzzle using the insights from pluralistic behavior economics by Van Staveren (2001). This article contributes to care/unpaid work studies through (1) inviting unquantifiable care value for discussion by rejecting materialistic monism, (2) dissociating the "prisoner of love" framework from paid carework by shedding light on care value exuded from sharing experience of giving in private-familial relational realm.

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Section: Materialistic Monism and Blurring Value Of Unpaid Work At Home By Care Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Materialistic Monism and Blurring Value Of Unpaid Work At Home By Care Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Pluralistic insight on care value: Exuding from sharing gift of unpaid work at home

Koo

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Socialist and Marxist feminists have adapted and developed the normalised relation between the oppressed and the oppressor in Marx's theory of alienation (Foreman, 1977;Jaggar, 1982;MacKinnon, 1982MacKinnon, , 1989Kain, 1993;Klotz, 2006). Socialist feminists, such as Anna Foreman (1977), have tried to unmask the question of women's oppression by positing femininity in and of itself as a form of alienation.…”

Section: Alienation Politics and The Reproduction Of Gender Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hence, the realisation of women's selfhood is a mode of alienation that results in women's agreement with their modes of objectification (ibid.). Marxist feminists, on the other hand, have provided a theoretical framework for women's oppression by questioning whether the relationship between sexuality, housework (as forms of labour), domination and the objectification of women is a form of alienation (Jaggar, 1982;MacKinnon, 1982MacKinnon, , 1989Kain, 1993).…”

Section: Alienation Politics and The Reproduction Of Gender Normsmentioning

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Gendered Politics of Alienation and Power Restoration: Arab Revolutions and Women's Sentiments of Loss and Despair

Jabiri

2017

Feminist Review

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From the start of the Arab revolutions in late 2010 a connection between the law, state, political economy, gender norms and orientalist ideology has formed the foundation of women's systematic exclusion from politics. This article offers a gendered political reading of the concept of alienation by unmasking the processes that created the ideological and material conditions of externalising women's revolutionary acts, estranging their political involvement and exposing them to various forms of violence.The article suggests that gender normative ideology's characterisation of women's images, roles and acts during and after revolutions corresponds to the most profound form of alienation. The article proposes that the externalisation, subjugating of women and objectification of their revolutionary acts are modes of alienation are necessary conditions for the reconfiguration of power dynamics to restore authoritarian states' power. The sphere of politics, the article insinuates, not only relates to political activism and conflict between revolutions and counter-revolutions, it is also a battlefield for the (re)production of gender normative knowledge.

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“…4). Philip J. Kain seems to waiver between the claims that domestic labor does not produce surplus value (Kain 1993, 134) and that the family cannot appropriate that surplus value because of the structure of the market (134–35). Bubeck has probably done the most to think through the question of whether it is appropriate to apply the term “ exploitation ” —defined as producing more value in one's labor than one receives as recompense for that labor—to women's work, and ends up calling it “silly” to simply reduce caregivers to fighters of exploitation (Bubeck 1995, 254).…”

Section: Constructing the Care Unitmentioning

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A Fourth Subject Position of Care

Butler¹

2012

Hypatia

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Analyses of care work typically speak of three necessary roles of care: the care worker, the care recipient, and an economic provider who makes care materially possible. This model provides no place for addressing the difficult political questions care poses for liberal representative democracy. I propose to fill this space with a new caring role to connect the care unit to the political sphere, as the economic provider connects the care unit to the economic sphere. I call this role that of the “care claimant.” The labor of claiming care consists in the development, expression, and advancement of the interests of the care unit. The argument for employing this fourth care role begins by comparing Nel Noddings's phenomenological care unit to Sara Ruddick's family‐based analysis. It then moves to discuss the way Eva Kittay emphasizes the dependency of the charge and its political ramifications to illustrate the need for a care claimant. After distinguishing the care claimant from the other roles of care, I examine the power relationships in the care unit and the position of the care claimant in the public sphere.

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Marx, Housework, and Alienation

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

A Pluralistic insight on care value: Exuding from sharing gift of unpaid work at home

A Pluralistic insight on care value: Exuding from sharing gift of unpaid work at home

Gendered Politics of Alienation and Power Restoration: Arab Revolutions and Women's Sentiments of Loss and Despair

A Fourth Subject Position of Care

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