law of value and caring (jim o'connor)

[Barbara Laurence]

Charles, yes caring labor is necessary to reproduce laborpower which the
next day is exploited, i.e., is non-caring labor.  A process whereby caring
labor is transformed into uncaring labor.
On caring labor see articles  by John Clark and Alan Dordoy/Mary Mellor
(CNS, issue 43, June, 2000).  John is working with a more cultural concept
of caring labor; Alan and Mary a more materialist concept.
My favorite article on the subject was written by a German woman maybe
15-20 years ago, name and title forgotten.  In a nutshell, her thesis is
that what women produce in the household is affect.  But affect is produced
within a very narrow frame of production relations, the house, four walls,
the husband, maybe a child or two.  Hence is repressed in various ways.
Here the relations of (re)production crimp the development of the forces of
(re)production (the production of affect).  The result in this account
isŠ.anger.