[LABR 3Q92] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 43 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 3Q92
• Professor: Kori Allan

Document Summary

Marx: labour is waged employment that involves exploitation. Exploitation: extraction of surplus values from free labourers who sell labour power (capacity to work) to capitalists (who own the means of production) in exchange for a wage. Surplus value: the extra value capitalists extract from labourer after paying their wage. This extraction of surplus value is what marx means by exploitation. Feminists sought to expand what is considered labour. Women"s work as labour because they believe it has economic value. Includes: sex, domestic, care work, some service work. Caring relationships feature sustained and/or intense personal attention that enhances the welfare of its recipients (zelizer) Scholars, such as zelizer, challenge the assumption that if a relation is intimate it cannot or should not involve labour. 4 sites of personal care (within the concept of intimate labour: unpaid care in intimate settings. Assumption that this unpaid work in home is natural. Ex/ caring for children/elderly and food preparation: unpaid care in economic organizations.