Marxist Feminism and the Value of Consumer Labour

* Essay: Kylie Jarrett - Devaluing Binaries: Marxist Feminism and the Value of Consumer Labour.

URL = https://www.academia.edu/12978869/BOOK_Reconsidering_value_and_labour_in_the_digital_age

From the book: Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age. Edited by Eran Fisher, Christian Fuchs. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Christian Fuchs et al.:

"In Chapter 12, “Devaluing Binaries: Marxist Feminism and the Value of Consumer Labour”, Kylie Jarret takes the question of how consumers can be theorized to engage is value creating activity (a theme we have encountered earlier in this volume in a number of chapters) a step further by questioning the production/reproduction dichotomy with the aid of Marxist feminist theory. Jarret shows the continuity between the labour of dig-ital media consumers and the reproductive activity of capitalism in –mostly unpaid and feminized – domestic labour. Rather than digital media technologies creating a new social reality, Jarret shows that the mobilization of unpaid labour – seen as reproductive activities – has always been part and parcel of capitalism. Where it was once mostly the purview of women in the domestic space, this kind of exploitation is more “democratized” now, exploiting the reproductive capacities of users on cyberspace."