wow-inequalities/02-data/intermediate/wos_sample/95fcf717b8a92c8f1af3799deb49f206-beier-friederike/info.yaml

abstract: 'Women''s unpaid care and domestic work is gaining relevance in

  policy-making as well as in academia. Feminist scholars and activists

  have lobbied successfully for the integration of unpaid care and

  domestic work into the Sustainable Development Goals (Goal 5.4) of the

  United Nations in the hope for greater recognition of women''s

  contribution to the economy. Policy documents about social reproduction

  highlight women''s disproportionate share of reproductive activities as

  an obstacle to women''s economic empowerment and as a relic of

  `traditional'' gender roles. Social reproduction is thereby not

  understood as a merit in itself, but as an obstacle to women''s

  participation in paid labour. Policy implications will enable certain

  empowerment effects for some women, but at the same time promote the

  increasing privatization and commodification of reproductive work across

  the globe. Rising inequalities between the Global North and South and

  between women along the categories of class and race will be one major

  result. To theoretically explain such contradictory effects of the

  recognition of social reproduction, I use the concept of `enclosures''

  based on Marx'' `primitive accumulation''. Feminist scholars use the

  concept to explain how unpaid care and housework is commodified or

  de-commodified to integrate women into the paid labour force or to

  reduce the costs of social reproduction according to the needs of the

  economy. The sudden interest in unpaid care and domestic work e.g. in

  the Sustainable Development Goals can therefore be seen as process of

  double enclosure, which integrates women into the paid labour force, but

  also sets the grounds for the further commodification of domestic and

  care work. This paper aims to critically discuss the sudden interest in

  unpaid domestic and care work and its contradictory effects from a

  Marxist feminist perspective and reflects on feminist strategies and

  movements in global governance. After introducing Marxist perspectives

  on social reproduction, the question if and how feminist ideas and

  concepts have been appropriated, the effects and implications of global

  policies on social reproduction and global inequalities, as well as

  possible counter-strategies will be discussed.'
affiliation: 'Beier, F (Corresponding Author), Free Univ Berlin, Otto Suhr Inst Polit
  Sci, Ctr Gender \& Divers, Berlin, Germany.

  Beier, Friederike, Free Univ Berlin, Otto Suhr Inst Polit Sci, Ctr Gender \& Divers,
  Berlin, Germany.'
author: Beier, Friederike
author-email: friederike.beier@fu-berlin.de
author_list:
- family: Beier
  given: Friederike
da: '2023-09-28'
files: []
issn: 1726-670X
journal: TRIPLEC-COMMUNICATION CAPITALISM \& CRITIQUE
keywords: 'social reproduction; primitive accumulation; enclosure; unpaid work;

  housework; care; gender; global inequality; intersectionality; economic

  empowerment; United Nations; sustainable development goals; politics of

  appropriation; feminism; feminist strategies'
keywords-plus: PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION; DISPOSSESSION; ECONOMY; RIGHTS; TIME
language: English
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '111'
pages: 546-561
papis_id: 974a023a5da05fe4968b476a511bec9e
ref: Beier2018marxistperspectives
times-cited: '6'
title: Marxist Perspectives on the Global Enclosures of Social Reproduction
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000443306500013
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '12'
volume: '16'
web-of-science-categories: Communication
year: '2018'