Marx’s ‘costs of consumption’: A new framework for analysing the economic character of ‘reproductive labour’
Published online on January 31, 2026
Abstract
Capital & Class, Ahead of Print.
This study resurrects Marx’s concept of ‘costs of consumption’ to resolve persistent theoretical impasses in the domestic labour debate. We argue that attempts to analyse ‘reproductive labour’ through production categories stem from a fundamental ...
This study resurrects Marx’s concept of ‘costs of consumption’ to resolve persistent theoretical impasses in the domestic labour debate. We argue that attempts to analyse ‘reproductive labour’ through production categories stem from a fundamental ...