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Outline of talk for FI

I. Capitalist Relations of Production

II. Necessary and Surplus Labour Time: The working Day

Labour power as commodity

The value of labour power and workers wages

III. Social Reproduction

Maintenance and renewal of workers

Subsistence and care of non-working members of the family

Reproduction of the labour force through generation changes

IV. The Domestic Labour Debates

V. The Oppression of Women

keywords:

social reproduction

sexual division of labour

value of labour power: use value and exchange value

women's unpaid labour 

wages in Marx

women's oppression

exploitation and oppression

[http://4edu.info/images/d/d9/Talk_for_FI_ecosocialist_school_Susan_Pashkoff1.doc Text of presentation]

Reading materials:

Capital, Labour-Power, and Gender-Relations: Introduction to the Historical Materialism Edition of
Marxism and the Oppression of Women Susan Ferguson and David McNally [http://4edu.info/images/5/5b/Lise-vogel-marxism-and-the-oppression-of-women_INTRO.pdf]

[https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/davis-angela/housework.htm The Obsolescence of Housework by Angela Davis]

[https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1920/communism-family.htm Alexandra Kollontai, Communism and the Family]