This paper employs a historical case study of the struggle between capital and labor in a context of high unemployment and falling production to illustrate the genesis of social pressures which affect the nature of women's oppression. The argument is that women's oppression does not exist in...

Recent Marxist analyses have focused on the working class family as the arena of domestic labour and the context of the reproduction of labour- power. The effect has been to view the family in terms of the functional prerequi sites of capitalism, and to locate its reproduction in the...

The paper provides an account of the sexual division of labor across modes of production. Attention is given to the historically specific demands that human reproduction makes on mothers. Analysis of feudalism and early capitalism identifies the need in poor economies to control marriage and...