Social Reproduction and Struggle

To organize at the workplace alone leaves out half the worker‘s own experience of exploitation–speaking as it does of the cash wage but not of prices or of the social wage. More important, it excludes all wageless people from organization. Pensioners, women doing unpaid domestic work, students at school and college, the unemployed and the invalid collecting state benefit–such people are a political resource, needed in struggle and needing it too. Reproduction, whether it be the practical reproduction of labour power or the ideological reproduction of our class system, our relationship to capital, is something in which everyone is involved.

The Local State: Management of Cities and People by Cynthia Cockburn