POLS 4900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Reproduction, Tax Law, Neoliberalism
24 Jan 2019
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Part 1: women and tax law: women"s subordination and burden. Use contemporary" in your paper modern is more historical. Lisa philipps: tax and social reproduction: quote on slide 5, law is normative. Historical legacy: women, liberalism, and tax law: tax law based on classical economic theory. Engulfment: what disappears: women"s welfare taken care of outside the market. Family and social reproduction ignored, depoliticized as private. Hampers women"s market relations: tax law discourse constructs the public and the private in liberalism. Mediates tensions: tension mediated by tax system: Between making profits and assuring an acceptable living standard for workers. Between accumulation of capital and sharing reproduction costs for new generation of workers (social reproduction primarily performed by women in unpaid work: post-wwii under keynesian principles of state-organized capitalism. Women still bore the burden of social reproduction even though some redistribution. Neo-liberal reform and tax law: market-organized capitalism under neo-liberalism: anew regulating project. Market model of the self-reliant taxpayer/worker (adult worker)
