Repronomics Reading Group "Contradictions of Capital and Care" at MayDayRooms
On Tuesday 16 April, 6.45-9pm, join Jo Harrison and Holly Isard for our second Repronomics Reading Group where we read Contradictions of Capital and Care by Nancy Fraser. First published in the New Left Review, July/August 2016 issue.
In this essay Fraser demonstrates that whilst care-work and capitalism are seemingly at odds with one another, capitalism is in fact dependent on the essential work of social reproduction in order to sustain itself and continue its drive towards accumulation. She shows how this contradiction has reached a point that is unsustainable, evolving to become a crisis of care.
Fraser moves through three regimes of social reproduction, bringing us up to today defined by “a dualised organisation of social reproduction, commodified for those who can pay for it, privatised for those who cannot,” demonstrating widening gaps in inequalities via ‘progressive neoliberalism’ and global care chains.
No prior reading required. We will read the text aloud together in the session. If you wish to familiarise yourself with the text beforehand, you can access it here.
This event is free. If anyone wishes to make a donation to MayDayRooms they can do so here.
This is the second of three Repronomics Reading Group sessions. Save the date for future events:
Session 3 will be Tuesday 14 May, 6.45-9pm
IMAGE: See Red Women's Workshop poster ‘7 Demands’, c. 1975