The Significance of Present-Day Changes In the Institution of Marriage
Muriel Nazzari
I n this paper compare the kind of marriage in which husband provides financial support and wife services, to feudal rela tion production. argue that changes we see institution marriage, both 1) mounting divorce rate, 2) trend towards a more egalitarian partnership within are actually process proletarianization women similar resulted for men from dissolution ties. The support/services is noncapitalist relation production gives access means subsistence through their husbands' wages. Present-day therefore represent dis solution Divorce single parent hood constitute most drastic form process. feminist struggle emancipate dependence subordination services establish coequal has same proletarianizing effect lesser degree. two-fold providing monopoly capital with workers larger reserve army unemployed without increasing population
Review of Radical Political Economics|RePEc: Research Papers in Economics