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Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution
By Marnie Holborow
Bloomsbury Academic £80
DOES home exist any more? “Home,” the concept of a private space which closes the door securely on work’s obligations – “the silent compulsion of economic relations,” as Marx termed it?
In this richly researched book, Marnie Holborow locates the fault line for women’s impoverishment lying in the heart of what home has become.
As Holborow puts it, “Home has traditionally been counterposed to work, despite the extensive amount of work – both paid and unpaid – that takes place within it.”
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