Module 2, Lesson 2.3: The Ugly: Unpaid, Unrecognized, and Unmeasured

Written By SCEPA

In this third lesson of Module 2, Associate Professor Paulo dos Santos draws on a large number of contributions to consider a vital question about the social content of capitalist economies: In what ways do those economies rely on extractions from certain social groups and on individual appropriations from our collective or common resources? In other words, to what extent do profits depend on simply taking things from people and from the planet?

By the end of this video (3/5), learners will be able to:

  • Explain what household reproduction and care labor are

  • Describe how our economies routinely enjoy the fruits of that labor without giving anything back to those who perform it

  • Describe the ways in which this appropriation relies on the social subordination of women and sustains profits.

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