The Clinic- Debt

Fraser 2017

Every form of capialism contains a deep-seated social reproductive contradiction: capitalism requires social reproduction, yet in its drive from unlimited accumulation, it destabilises the very processes it depends on. Crisis of care. (Western Context) From late 20th century onwards, states and firms disinvest from welfare, pushing women into waged labour. Framed as progressive, reproduction seen as an obstacle to advancement. Also talks about egg freezing example- corporation offering payment for delayed reproduction (2016)

Mies 2014

The historical process by which women's labour is externalised as a "natural resource," freely available like air and water, is not a domestic development but a colonial one. Nuclear family in core maintained by periphery. While Fraser works in historical phases in a Western context, this treats the exploitation of women's reproductive labour as structurally foundational and constant, making reform of capitalism on this front essentially impossible without dismantling the system.

Federici 2004

Directly concerned with primitive accumulation, the witch hunts as expropriation of reproductive autonomy, and the historical construction of unpaid domestic labour.

del Rio 2024

Positions the financialisation of social reproduction as a contradictory relationship between the reproduction of financialised capitalism and regeneration of life- this contradiction generates possibilities for resistance. Develops financial counter-topographies- mapping finanical trails to reveal uneven financial extraction. Insists on variegated financialisation - extraction + resistance both path-dependent and producted by local political traditions, colonial histories, and reproductive strategies. Also talks about how working class pension funds actvely drive predatory finance (eg. Blackstone land-grabbing and evictions)- compounds inequality where reprodutive strategies of working class funds their + G.S. working class’s own dispossesion.

Vertommen 2024

Surrogacy in Israel/Palestine operates simultaneously as three kinds of frontier. Demographic frontier: expanding the Jewish settler population while managing and suppressing Palestinian reproduction- Egg Donation Law both require that egg provider and recipient share the same religion. Commodity frontier: extracting cheap reproductive labour from racialised women in the Global South- Georgian surrogates receive US$15,000 (described as "fees," not wages, because gestation is not viewed as "real labour") Resistance frontier: Palestinian sperm-smuggling from Israeli prisons as embodied anticolonial resistance. Gays against surrogacy- refusal to produce soldiers

Gago + Cavallero 2021

Inversion of debt- you owe us! asks what labour has been historically extracted from women, for free, as a condition of capitalist accumulation, and argues that it is therefore the state, bosses, and patriarchs who are in debt, not the women to whom care responsibilities have been assigned. Feminist Strike - a strike against the entire constellation of gendered obligations and debts that structure women's labour: not only paid work but domestic work, care work, reproductive work, community work- strike as a process not event.

Katz 2004

Social reproduction as "a set of structured practices that unfold in dialectical relation with production." For the Clinic, significance is her insistence that social reproduction is not a passive backdrop but a dynamic, contested terrain shaped by global economic restructuring. Her concept of counter-topographies — mapping how processes operating at different scales are connected through the same underlying structures — is taken up by del Río and provides a methodological bridge to resistanc

Hochschild 2000

Relatively well-off women are "freed" to work in the paid workforce by employing poor women, often from the Global South, to care for their children, who must in turn leave their own children's care to others. This is a chain of care displacement running from North to South, extracting emotional labour as a form of surplus value

Glenn 1992

Canonical text for the argument that reproductive labour in the US has always been racially organised: Black, Latina, and Asian women doing the care work that white women are freed from.