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The Hassle of Housework

Digitalisation and the Commodification of Domestic Labour

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ID3945774
AutoresUrsula Huws (0000-0003-0774-1023, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume123
Fascículo1
Páginas8-23
Data de publicação2019-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0141778919879725
OpenAlexW2994935454
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas69
Referências citadas25

This article revisits materialist second-wave feminist debates about domestic labour in the context of digitalisation. Using a differentiated typology of labour, it looks at how the tasks involved in housework have undergone dramatic changes through commodification, decommodification and recommodification without fundamentally altering the gender division of labour in social reproduction, drawing on recent research on the use of online platforms to deliver social reproductive labour via the market in a context in which reproductive labour sits at the centre of an intense time squeeze. It reflects on the implications of the commodification of domestic labour for feminist strategy. The author points to the inadequacy in this context of traditional feminist strategies-for the socialisation of domestic labour through public services, wages for housework or labour-saving through technological solutions-concluding that new strategies are needed that address the underlying social relations that perpetuate unequal divisions of labour in contemporary capitalism

Capitalism · Commodification · Context (archaeology) · Division of labour · Economics · Labour economics · Market economy · Materialism · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reproduction · Social capital · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Typology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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