I will build on the work of Paddy Quick and Roswitha Scholz to make the case that it is only the partial rather than complete separation of working-class people from the means of subsistence that necessitates household production in capitalist society. Respondent: Brendan Rome, Villanova University

The talk begins with an assumption that “the production of goods and services and the production of life are part of one integrated process” (Luxton 2006). Respondent: Natasha Hay, Toronto Metropolitan University

I will begin from a thread in Radius which connects reproductive justice to the militant feminist struggle described in that book, in order to consider social reproduction during revolutionary upheaval and Egypt's counter-revolutionary turn. Respondent: Jasmin Makhlouf, Duquesne University

Speaker: Paula Varela Respondent: Constanza Filloy, Villanova University

How do we read what appears to be an overwhelming feminization of the formidable efforts and struggles involved in holding state actors accountable for the survival and social reproduction of labouring poor and working class households? Respondent: Anusha Hariharan, Villanova University

Drawing on her most recent book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Premilla Nadasen traces the history of the care economy and analyzes its roots in racial capitalism. Respondent: Rachel Brown, Washington University in St. Louis