![]() ![]() ![]() I would therefore suggest that the value form and the value relation are not coincident they cut across the paid/unpaid work divide such that generalized commodification cannot be sustained except through the incessant revolutionizing not only of the forces of production but also the relations of reproduction. ![]() And yet – it is a very big and yet – value as abstract labor cannot be produced except through unpaid work. Not-valued forms of work are outside the value form (the commodity) – they do not directly produce value ( contra Dalla Costa and James, 1972). The condition that some work is valued is that most work is not. We have, i n earlier installments, considered the indispensable contributions of unpaid work to the endless accumulation of capital: contributions that transcend the illusory divide between human and extra-human natures. Here we take up again questions of the relations of value, nature, and history.
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