Abstract
AbstractIn what ways, and to what effects, are proliferating temporalities of appropriation in financialized capitalism transforming or transformed by those of social reproductive labor? More specifically, how are woman-child relations affected when social reproduction becomes a site of immediate, not just indirect, capital accumulation through relations of debt? To answer these questions, we take up species-being as the laborrelationthat anchors socially necessary labor and links women and children by attending to three temporal modalities of accumulation via social reproductive labor: scholarization, (re)familization, and debt servicing. We argue that differentiated tempos in the appropriation of surplus value, operating to “fix” contradictions between capital's short- and long-term interests, are critical sources of tension between women and children in the meeting of needs. Producing and mapping divergent rhythms of appropriation on to different groups may both link diverse women and children, and put their interests at odds.
Highlights
In what ways, and to what effects, are proliferating temporalities of appropriation in financialized capitalism transforming or transformed by those of social reproductive labor? how are woman-child relations affected when social reproduction becomes a site of immediate, not just indirect, capital accumulation through relations of debt? To answer these questions, we take up species-being as the labor relation that anchors socially necessary labor and links women and children by attending to three temporal modalities of accumulation via social reproductive labor: scholarization,familization, and debt servicing
The temporality of appropriation and its role in producing differentiation in changing regimes of accumulation has been central to our arguments to date, and here we continue this unfinished discussion with others to develop further
While there is a general tendency for capital to attempt to increase profits by decreasing the amount of socially necessary labor covered by wages, there is significant spatial-temporal variation and instability in how capital seeks to “fix” the crisis tendency which lies at the heart of social reproduction
Summary
To what effects, are proliferating temporalities of appropriation in financialized capitalism transforming or transformed by those of social reproductive labor? how are woman-child relations affected when social reproduction becomes a site of immediate, not just indirect, capital accumulation through relations of debt? To answer these questions, we take up species-being as the labor relation that anchors socially necessary labor and links women and children by attending to three temporal modalities of accumulation via social reproductive labor: scholarization, (re)familization, and debt servicing. Our work together “realized” a tension in these programs between the social reproductive labor required of children in these early education settings and that required predominantly of women, often in ways that obscured the other’s exploitation and oppression, or held the other primarily accountable for this subjugation (Rosen and Newberry 2018).
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