Neoliberal Shifts on the Reproduction of Bodies: Market, Work, and Care

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to study the reproduction of bodies under neoliberalism from a wide labour perspective (inside and outside the wage relation). First, we draw a brief genealogy of the different reproductive norms from fordism to welfare states’ crisis (taking account of wage, consumption and unpaid housework configurations). Then, neoliberalism is analyzed in its diverse labor policies and in its ideological and theoretical discourses as a privatization process of reproduction at various levels.

Keywords

• reproducción
• cuerpo
• trabajo
• neoliberalismo
• privatización