Paddy Quick
Biographic Data
| ID | 5934474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paddy Quick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paddy |
| FAMILY NAME | Quick |
| SIGNATURE | QUICK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Francis College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5539-3716 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Roundtable
On the Transition to Capitalism
Capitalism and Household Production
Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) takes as its starting point the recognition that household activity in the capitalist mode of production constitutes far more than the production of use values. The activities that take place within households are understood to be part of the entire process of reproduction of society, i.e. social reproduction. The proponents of SRT have stimulated much valuable empirical research on these activities. However, ther…
Who Cares? Capitalism and the Reproduction of the Working Class
The concept of “caring labor” obscures the process of surplus extraction in the capitalist mode of production. In particular, the government’s provision of services such as preschool child care needs to be understood as having the effect of substituting for the care provided by the household rather than adding to it. The process of substitution is one that involves a decrease in household labor and a corresponding increase in wage labor, in parti…
Social Reproduction and Household Production
Household Production, Household Activity, and Human Development
In a socialist mode of production, human activity is no longer constrained by the capitalist need to maximize surplus labor, and correspondingly minimize necessary labor. The guiding principle for its organization can therefore be the development and realization of human potential. Some idea of what this could consist of can be derived from observations of the struggle by both wage laborers and household laborers for such goals within the capital…
The Role of Household Production in the Determination of Wages and the Process of Capitalist Production
Wages in the capitalist mode of production must be sufficient to ensure the resources necessary for the production/reproduction of labor power. As such they constitute a supplement to the production by the working class in the form of household production and petty-commodity production. The growth of capitalist production, and the increase in the proportion of total labor time that takes the form of wage labor, can thus be understood as resulting…
Labor Power
Labor power is a “peculiar” commodity. It does not conform to the standard “rules” governing the exchange of commodities, unless it is assumed that capital has “conquered all production” so that household production does not exist. Marxist theorists, when recognizing its existence, have addressed this “dilemma” in several ways. The distinction between necessary and surplus production in all class societies provides a different solution to this di…
Marx's “Universal Class,” Relations of Production, and Relations of Sex-Gender-Age
Marxism, Class, and the Household
Feudalism and Household Production
The all-too-common neglect of household production in mainstream Marxist analyses of capitalism finds its counterpart not only in the neglect of non-field production in feudalism, but also in a failure to recognize the performance of surplus labor within the households of feudal lords. Recognition of both of these leads to a new perspective on the transition from feudalism to capitalism and, in addition, on the changing structure of gender relati…
A Value-Added Approach to Macroeconomics
Value added, National income and product accounts, Gross national product
Subsistence Wages and Household Production
A theoretical analysis of capitalist relations of production shows that both the subsistence wage rate and the allocation of workers’ time between household and wage labor are determined by the household production function. In and of itself, this analysis tells us nothing at all about gender relations. It does, however, enable us to distinguish clearly between gender and class relations and thus to investigate their interrelationship.
Why Women Work for Wages
The Class Nature of Women's Oppression
The principal thesis of the article is that the oppression of women is based on the role of women in the exploited class as the repro ducers of laborers in class society. The oppression of women is not due to the need for the ruling class to hand on its private property to its biol ogical children, as Engels argued; nor is it due to the division of labor between women and men. Rather, the specific economic form whereby resources (use-values) are …
Labor Power
Labor power is a “peculiar” commodity. It does not conform to the standard “rules” governing the exchange of commodities, unless it is assumed that capital has “conquered all production” so that household production does not exist. Marxist theorists, when recognizing its existence, have addressed this “dilemma” in several ways. The distinction between necessary and surplus production in all class societies provides a different solution to this di…
Feudalism and Household Production
The all-too-common neglect of household production in mainstream Marxist analyses of capitalism finds its counterpart not only in the neglect of non-field production in feudalism, but also in a failure to recognize the performance of surplus labor within the households of feudal lords. Recognition of both of these leads to a new perspective on the transition from feudalism to capitalism and, in addition, on the changing structure of gender relati…
Capitalism and Household Production
Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) takes as its starting point the recognition that household activity in the capitalist mode of production constitutes far more than the production of use values. The activities that take place within households are understood to be part of the entire process of reproduction of society, i.e. social reproduction. The proponents of SRT have stimulated much valuable empirical research on these activities. However, ther…
The Class Nature of Women's Oppression
The principal thesis of the article is that the oppression of women is based on the role of women in the exploited class as the repro ducers of laborers in class society. The oppression of women is not due to the need for the ruling class to hand on its private property to its biol ogical children, as Engels argued; nor is it due to the division of labor between women and men. Rather, the specific economic form whereby resources (use-values) are …
Why Women Work for Wages
Subsistence Wages and Household Production
A theoretical analysis of capitalist relations of production shows that both the subsistence wage rate and the allocation of workers’ time between household and wage labor are determined by the household production function. In and of itself, this analysis tells us nothing at all about gender relations. It does, however, enable us to distinguish clearly between gender and class relations and thus to investigate their interrelationship.
A Value-Added Approach to Macroeconomics
Value added, National income and product accounts, Gross national product
Feudalism and Household Production
The all-too-common neglect of household production in mainstream Marxist analyses of capitalism finds its counterpart not only in the neglect of non-field production in feudalism, but also in a failure to recognize the performance of surplus labor within the households of feudal lords. Recognition of both of these leads to a new perspective on the transition from feudalism to capitalism and, in addition, on the changing structure of gender relati…
Marxism, Class, and the Household
Marx's “Universal Class,” Relations of Production, and Relations of Sex-Gender-Age
Labor Power
Labor power is a “peculiar” commodity. It does not conform to the standard “rules” governing the exchange of commodities, unless it is assumed that capital has “conquered all production” so that household production does not exist. Marxist theorists, when recognizing its existence, have addressed this “dilemma” in several ways. The distinction between necessary and surplus production in all class societies provides a different solution to this di…
The Role of Household Production in the Determination of Wages and the Process of Capitalist Production
Wages in the capitalist mode of production must be sufficient to ensure the resources necessary for the production/reproduction of labor power. As such they constitute a supplement to the production by the working class in the form of household production and petty-commodity production. The growth of capitalist production, and the increase in the proportion of total labor time that takes the form of wage labor, can thus be understood as resulting…
Who Cares? Capitalism and the Reproduction of the Working Class
The concept of “caring labor” obscures the process of surplus extraction in the capitalist mode of production. In particular, the government’s provision of services such as preschool child care needs to be understood as having the effect of substituting for the care provided by the household rather than adding to it. The process of substitution is one that involves a decrease in household labor and a corresponding increase in wage labor, in parti…
Social Reproduction and Household Production
Household Production, Household Activity, and Human Development
In a socialist mode of production, human activity is no longer constrained by the capitalist need to maximize surplus labor, and correspondingly minimize necessary labor. The guiding principle for its organization can therefore be the development and realization of human potential. Some idea of what this could consist of can be derived from observations of the struggle by both wage laborers and household laborers for such goals within the capital…
Capitalism and Household Production
Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) takes as its starting point the recognition that household activity in the capitalist mode of production constitutes far more than the production of use values. The activities that take place within households are understood to be part of the entire process of reproduction of society, i.e. social reproduction. The proponents of SRT have stimulated much valuable empirical research on these activities. However, ther…
Roundtable
On the Transition to Capitalism
Economics (12 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (11 works) · Microeconomics (9 works) · Labour economics (7 works) · Production (economics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Wage (6 works) · Capitalism (5 works)