Reply To: Diane Elson: The Value Theory of Labour

Perhaps the end result has value- but it can go without pay,

The social totality, or the social practice pertaining the family as an apparatus does have an ‘end user’ for capitalism. Future populations are generated- and then turned into labour/consumers.

But how they came into being is not waged. Women experience this above men. There is a lot of labour time completed without value- and not all of it is waged, but the opposite, it is commodified- pay to be a parent!- but the resulting effects are of benefit to capital, and often to men in the traditional patriarchy.

Sometimes the value is an indirect effect, or a non paid benefit in any totality.

This is a challenge.

There is a waft of feudalism in capital recognition of labour.