The End of Entitlement Winners and Losers in the Eighties and Nineties The Making of the Boomers The Problem of the Moral Mother The Spoiled Generation Illegitimate Elites and the Parasitic Underclass The Fractured Generation The Politics of Generational Division

Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream

Social reproduction is a lens through which to analyse the persistence of society over time, even as its human and material components keep changing. Its main value is in identifying and explaining tensions that emerge between the logic that reproduces society, and the continued survival (biological reproduction) and wellbeing of the population. Its origins are in Karl Marx’s critique of capitalist society, as governed by a drive towards accumulation. Initially, anthropologists have sought inspiration from Marx in examining the reproduction of non-capitalist societies, but they have since largely joined adjacent disciplines in focusing on capitalism. Modern social reproduction theory has proceeded from blind spots in Marx’s analysis, primarily regarding the role of women and domestic work in maintaining current workers and non-workers. From there, it has expanded to examine other fault lines in the reproduction of capitalist society. Contemporary strands of social reproduction theory attend to crises that emerge with respect to care work and livelihoods as finance becomes the main motor of accumulation. They also underline ways in which the reproduction of society reproduces inequalities within it. For ethnographers, attention to social reproduction illuminates the entanglements of any chosen fieldsite and plights therein with broader dynamics of accumulation.

Social reproduction : Schooling and class society

The principal subject of this annual bibliography is the English language scholarly literature of United States Communism, supplemented by citations from serious non-scholarly journals, obituaries,...

United States Communist History Bibliography 2018

The contributions of Ellen Meiksins Wood to social property relations arguments have facilitated an enhanced understanding of the historical specificity of capitalism and its structuring conditions...

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Is capitalism structurally indifferent to gender?: Routes to a value theory of reproductive labour *:

Humankind continues to face the two problems that have existed since the degeneration of the 1917 October Revolution that began in the mid-1920s. While it is experiencing enormous suffering caused ...

Martha E. Giménez

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Marx, Women, and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marxist Feminist Essays