LABR 1F99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Reproduction, Labour Power, Social Inequality

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 1F99
• Professor: Simon Black

Document Summary

Lecture 7: work under capitalism unpaid work & social reproduction. How it gets back to democracy, social justice and good work. Work under capitalism: domestic labour & social reproduction. Household work, family work, unpaid work, domestic work. =domestic labour or the work of social reproduction. Care giving: childbearing and childrearing having and raising children (bathing, changing, comforting, socializing, teaching) caring for elderly relatives paying bills, grocery shopping) Consumption work: work of making ends meet (money management, Capitalists need healthy, socialized, productive workers on a daily and intergenerational basis (needs good workers to show up to job everyday and throughout the newer generations) Domestic labour ensures that ppl are ready for paid work everyday clothed, fed and rested enough to labour= social reproduction. And ensures that when today"s workers pass on, there will be other to take their place= social reproduction. Paid work involved expenditure of labour power to produce goods and services in return for wage.