SOSC 2211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Primitive Accumulation Of Capital, Social Reproduction, Labour Power

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2211
• Professor: Katherine Kastoviski

Document Summary

Precarious migrants: gender, race and the social reproduction of a global working class. Using a marxist-feminist approach to understand social reproduction in terms of inner connections" of household, neighborhood, community activities with the monetized social activities. Monetized activities: includes street vending, selling sex and independent domestic production, they are interconnected with domestic and neighborhood activities ranging from cooking, cleaning to childcare and recreation. Inaccurate/improper theorization of the global space of capitalist production obscures the central roles of racisim and imperialism in relations between the capitalist and the global working class. The world market in labor are constituted by racialized forms of citizenship, non-membership, differentiated domains of security", all contributing to exploitation of labor. That the social reproduction of the global working class entails processes of migration and racialization that are inseparable from its class and gender dimensions. Primitive accumulation, dispossession & the global labor market.