SOSC 1700 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Reproduction, Gender Role, Passover Seder

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A marxist term used to describe the unpaid domestic labor or home work that women do in the traditional patriarchal home. Work of reproducing the workforce domestic work in housework such as child care, cooking, cleaning. It is work that everyone in the economy relies upon, the unpaid reproductive labor by producing more (giving birth) and raising them (wipe, feed, teach). We need to recognize this labor of love" (an ideology) that justifies the idea of social reproduction. If its labor of love ten we don"t need to recognize it or pay for it. This exploits women and makes the job seem less worthy$. If women chose not to do this it makes them look like bad mothers. Because women freely choose to do it: globalized food systems. The production of food in one region for consumption in another; economic integration means that poorer countries are increasingly dependent upon the export of their agriculture for foreign exchange.