Po co nam garść pieniędzy? Refleksje o kryzysie i walkach wokół pracy reprodukcyjnej
Why do we need a lump of money? Reflections on Crisis and Struggles around Reproductive Labour

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses basic income in the context of feminist political ecology using the concepts of reproductive labour, both performed by people and by nature. In the first part we will elaborate on the Wages for Housework campaign as a forerunner of the idea of basic income. This campaign inscribed the concept of income into an intersectional relation between patriarchy and capitalism which was a key element of its revolutionary dimension. In the second part we analyse three different social struggles in order to create a ground for further reflections over the legitimacy of such tools (and resolutions) such as basic income. On the one hand the paper highlights some elements of the crisis of social reproduction, brought about and further deepened by neoliberal reforms in Poland over the past 25 years. On the other hand, it alludes to the issues of ecological crisis which needs to be taken into account in every anti-capitalist theory or strategy. Thus, the article aims to investigate as to whether the wage demands for both reproductive and productive labour are still relevant in the era of neoliberal capitalism.

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