Kirstin Munro- Social Reproduction (2024) [Marx: Key Concepts, Feminism, unpaid reproductive labor]

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Munro autobio
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research in New York. The major theme of my research is the overlapping relationships between people, the economy, and the environment. An econometrician by training, I use both quantitative and qualitative methods in my work. I am interested in questions related to:
The production, distribution, and consumption of energy, and its relationship to environmental problems;
Labor, both paid and unpaid, and its relationship to consumption and production processes;
The economic growth and development of regions, and its relationship to social, economic, and environmental problems; and
Critiques of individual, firm, and government-scale sustainability efforts.
While my research is grounded in a disciplinary perspective thanks to my graduate training in economics, both the methods and substance of my work are shaped by insights from relevant social theory and economic inquiry outside the mainstream. I serve on the Editorial Board of The Review of Radical Political Economics and the Editorial Advisory Boards of the journal Global Political Economy and the Critical Theory and the Critique of Society Book Series.
Social Reproduction Theory wikipedia
Social reproduction describes the reproduction of social structures and systems, mainly on the basis of particular preconditions in demographics, education and inheritance of material property or legal titles (as earlier with aristocracy). Reproduction is understood as the maintenance and continuation of existing social relations. Originally formulated by Karl Marx in Das Kapital, this concept is a variety of Marx's notion of economic reproduction.
According to sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, there are four types of capital that contribute to social reproduction in society: economic capital, cultural capital, social capital and symbolic capital.
Social reproduction in this sense is distinct from the term as it is used in Marxist feminism to discuss reproductive labor. In that application, it is used to explain the role of women in wider social and class structures, and their (often unrecognized) contribution to the capitalist economy via their (traditional) role within the household as both child-bearers and family caretakers, and by extension women's role as providers of free labor that is necessary to produce and maintain current and future workers.

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