Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

All told, people-making work supplies some fundamental preconditions—material, social, cultural—for human society in general and for capitalist production in particular. Without it neither life nor labor power could be embodied in human beings.

Our responsibility as a society to guarantee the availability of meaningful work is grounded in a pragmatic recognition that some kind of work is more or less necessary for most of us, and that since this typically takes up so much of our time it is bound to shape our lives in profound ways. In practical terms, as we shall see, we can ensure these

Without building durable and shared sites of worth outside of market relations, we are stuck with the valuation of worth as productivity.