Social Reproduction: The Political Economy of the Labour MarketThis book focuses on the relationship between the process of producing commodities and the process of social reproduction of the labouring population, and seeks to restore that problematic relationship to the central place it had in the analysis of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx. |
Contents
Wages as exogenous costs of social reproduction | 8 |
The displacement effect of the wages fund theory | 30 |
The role of the state in the labour market i e social insecurity | 57 |
Women and the Poor Law | 74 |
Womens work at the core of the labour market | 95 |
The supply of labour as a process of social reproduction | 117 |
Notes | 145 |
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Common terms and phrases
able-bodied accumulation adjustment mechanism allocation analysis analytical framework aspects basic Beatrice Webb capital capitalist capitalist system changes classes classical economists conflict consumption context costs of reproduction costs of social defined dependence determination of wages economic system employment exchange exogenous fact function given historical processes housewives housework increase inherent insecurity institutions James Mill labouring population living standards Malthus Malthusian market price McCulloch means of subsistence Minority Report natural price necessary neoclassical neoclassical economics outdoor relief persistent perspective policies Poor Law power relationships price of labour problem process of reproduction process of social production and reproduction profit question relation between production relationship between production reproduction of labour Ricardian Ricardo role Royal Commission scarcity sections Smith social reproduction specific standards of living structure supply and demand supply of labour supply-and-demand theory of wages Torrens waged labour market wageless wages fund theory Webb and Webb women
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Unpaid Work and the Economy: A Gender Analysis of the Standard of Living Antonella Picchio No preview available - 2003 |
Pension Reform and Economic Theory: A Non-orthodox Analysis Sergio Cesaratto No preview available - 2005 |