Homes in Crisis Capitalism

Gender, Work and Revolution

Marnie Holborow (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-37996-1 (ISBN)

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Homes in Crisis Capitalism explores the core social reproduction role that individual households fulfil in our societies, and the class and racial effects of this on gender inequality and discrimination. Women now make up nearly half of the paid workforce globally, yet prevailing neoliberal social policy continues to rule out adequate state provision of child- and elder-care, choosing instead to rely on marketized services to fill the gap. It is mainly women who carry out this little valued care work, either in a non-paid or paid capacity, and gender inequality is entrenched across society. Official gender parity policies, often expressed in terms of equality of opportunity, have done little to ease the double burden of domestic and care work for the vast majority of women. Competitive labour markets discriminate against those expected to be the primary caregivers of children, the sick and disabled and older people. In addition, the presence across many societies of an acute housing crisis and soaring inflation have put added pressures on home life. A social reproduction crisis has developed, and it is working class women and women of colour who are paying the price.

Holborow analyses homes in crisis capitalism through a Marxist lens of capitalist social reproduction. This book charts the interwoven social and political effects and outcomes of work and care provided in the home, and makes the case for a radical break with capitalism to give social reproduction the material resources and social recognition it deserves.

Marnie Holborow is an Associate Faculty member at Dublin City University, Ireland. She is a writer and activist, and the author of two books on Marxism and language - the most recent of which is Language and Neoliberalism (2015). She has also contributed to journals with articles on the home, women and paid employment, and on the 2018 Irish movement for abortion rights - in which she was an active participant.

Introduction: Homes and Social Reproduction: From Social Crisis to Social Change

Chapter 1: Homes and Families: Picking up the Tab for Capitalism

Chapter 2: Engels for our Times: Oppression, the Privatized Family and Revolution

Chapter 3: Homes and Ideology: ‘Family Values’, Race and Class Privilege

Chapter 4: Work in the Home, Care on the Cheap and how things Could be Different

Chapter 5: Homes within a New Feminised, Diverse Working Class

Chapter 6: The Contradictions of Home Life

Conclusion: Homes, Gender Politics and Anti-Capitalism

Erscheinungsdatum	09.02.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-350-37996-4 / 1350379964
ISBN-13	978-1-350-37996-1 / 9781350379961
Zustand	Neuware