Economic and Social Classes in Theorizing Unpaid Household Activities Under Capitalism
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2015
Abstract
In this paper, I offer a framework for analyzing non-market oriented household activities in a way that overcomes some issues about defining the boundaries among household activities. I utilize the concept of a social process and discuss how unpaid household activities are part of labor, care, recreation, and consumption processes. Next, I explain the importance of introducing economic class and social class processes into the framework, as well as the importance of making a distinction between the two. Economic class accounts for the basics of the capitalist economy, and social class opens contexts of variation. The framework allows for a multidimensionality of individuals and opens the question of unpaid activities varying in categorization based on economic class. Also, it helps the economic analysis of capitalism consider that maintaining a household lifestyle directly involves and pertains to unpaid household activities that are part of each of the delineated labor, care, recreation, and consumption processes.
Repository Citation
Todorova, Z.
(2015). Economic and Social Classes in Theorizing Unpaid Household Activities Under Capitalism. Journal of Economic Issues, 49 (2), 425-431.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/econ/245
DOI
10.1080/00213624.2015.1042753