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Beyond the Capitalist Workplace

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  • Costas Panayotakis

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This article analyzes the public and household sectors of the economy as sites of surplus production within contemporary capitalist societies. It also shows how the coexistence of structurally distinct spheres of surplus production creates divisions among workers in the private, public, and household sectors of the economy, thus amplifying the racial, gender, and other divisions that have often in the past kept working people divided. Fueling these cross-sector divisions is the appearance that private-sector workers are paid for their labor rather than for their labor power. Thus, this article also explores an implication of this appearance, which Karl Marx, the thinker who did the most to expose it, did not himself explore.

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  • Costas Panayotakis, 2021. "Beyond the Capitalist Workplace," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 53(1), pages 77-94, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:53:y:2021:i:1:p:77-94
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613420915982
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    Keywords

    economic surplus; feminist economics; households; neoliberalism; Marxist economics;
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    JEL classification:

    • B5 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches
    • D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
    • A1 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics
    • H0 - Public Economics - - General

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