Social Reproduction Theory by Tithi Bhattacharya
Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression
The book argues that capitalism depends on the ongoing, often invisible work that reproduces labor power—domestic, care, community, and bodily labor—which is gendered, racialized, and frequently unpaid or precarious; it links this social reproduction to historical and contemporary processes such as welfare-state rollback, austerity, migration, and racialized labor hierarchies. Drawing on feminist and Marxist traditions, it reframes class analysis to center reproductive labor and shows how struggles over care, household work, and public provisioning are central to anticapitalist politics. The work calls for politicizing social reproduction by connecting workplace organizing with demands for collective public services, recognition of reproductive labor, and broader solidarity across gender, race, and class to build transformative social movements.
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- 2017
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- Indian
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- English
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