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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
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000443306500013
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '12'
volume: '16'
web-of-science-categories: Communication
year: '2018'