This is acid man.

Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left. I'm Nadia Idol and I'm joined as usual by my friend Jeremy Gilbert. Hello. And Kea Milburn. Hello. And today on this

special microdose we are talking about social reproduction.

So, guys, why do we want to talk about social reproduction today?

Well, we did an episode about cleaning, and cleaning is a classic example of social reproduction,

as understood by people who use that particular language and theoretical

framework. And we know that social reproduction is a term that gets used a lot in left circles

and left theoretical circles. It's a term we use a lot. It's a term I, it's one of those theoretical

pieces of jargon that's passed into my everyday discourse, like difference, resonantiment,

and the others, no, but social reproduction really has.

Well, I was trying to read up on social reproduction yesterday in preparation for this,

and I had too much social reproductive work to do. So, no, I mean, I think it's sort of

interesting social reproduction because it's got more popular. It's got much more popular

over the last sort of 10 to 15 years and it's sort of interesting to think why. I think it also,

it's like an extension. It's sort of like provide some more tools for thinking through the discussion we had in

the main trip, the main trip on cleaning, well, we only touched on it, really.

And so in a way, you know, we want to provide tools for people to think about it and see

how introducing this concept alters the way we're thinking about stuff

such as cleaning, but also all of the struggles, the sort of like struggles around social

reproductive work, both waged and unwaged, you know, the sphere of the economy in which

you could term reproductive work or social reproductive work is really

cut very big and it's been growing and it will keep growing, I think, if you include things

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