Social Reproduction Theory (SRT)
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A Marxist-feminist theoretical framework that analyzes how labor power is reproduced, daily and generationally, under capitalism, treating women's unpaid domestic and care labor as a constitutive condition of capitalist accumulation. Emerging from the 'domestic labor debate' of the 1970s, it was systematized through Lise Vogel's Marxism and the Oppression of Women (1983) and further developed by Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser, and others. SRT argues that capitalism offloads the costs of reproducing labor power onto the private sphere, overwhelmingly onto individual women and families, and offers a unitary theoretical account of the inseparability of class and gender.
Sources
- Wikipedia (EN) Lise Vogel biography: recognized as one of the main founders of Social Reproduction Theory; her Marxism and the Oppression of Women (1983) is considered a founding text of SRT, arguing that women's oppression should be understood in terms of women's role in social reproduction and in reproducing labor power.
- Wikipedia (EN) Vogel's book summary: identifies two contradictory legacies in Marxism — the dual systems perspective and the social reproduction perspective — and argues for the latter; establishes that domestic labor is necessary labor that reproduces labor power but does not produce surplus value.
- Wikipedia (EN) Social Reproduction section: defines social reproduction as the process of creating and maintaining the workforce in a given economic system; occurs within households through unpaid or low-paid work traditionally done by women; fills gaps in Marx's original theory by recognizing women's domestic role.