WMS 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Family Wage, Social Reproduction, Aid To Families With Dependent Children
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The gendered separation of social reproduction from economic reproduction constitutes the principal institutional basis. Liberal capitalism: privatized social reproduction; separate spheres ideology. State-arranged or social-democratic: partially socialized through state and corporate provision or social welfare; mass production and mass consumption; family wage bargain: neoliberal financialized capitalism: commodified social reproduction, two-earner family. Employer should pay man enough fully support both themselves and their families. Relied on a societal division of labor: women performed social reproduction in the home while men performed productive labor in the workplace. Relied on government support via ss, ui, wc and single-parent families thru afdc. Liberal capitalism: privatized social reproduction, separate sphere ideology. State-managed or social-democratic capitalism: partially socialized through state and corporate provision or social welfare; mass production and mass consumption; family wage bargain. Neoliberal financialized capitalism: commodified social reproduction, two-earner family/solitary wage bargain. Two-earner/solitary wage bargain: workers considered solitary market actors. Employers offer lower wages and few benefits; more temporary and unstable work.