Hot take: much of the literature on social reproduction that draws on Lise Vogel only draws on her abstract model of reproductive labor in class societies, not the abstract dynamic model of domestic labor in capitalism she proceeds to develop.
This is ironic given that Vogel characterizes her contribution as developing a concept of domestic labor specific to capitalism without fixed gender assignment.
A contribution that Vogel thought had freed her account of domestic labor "from several common-sense assumptions that haunted the domestic-labour debate, most especially the notion that domestic labour is universal and that it is necessarily women’s work."
Have these assumptions been smuggled back in in the work that uses Vogel?
Does the use of Vogel's abstract model of reproductive labor in class society, rather than her model of domestic labor in capitalism, in part explain why theories of social reproduction tend to have unsatisfying notions of capitalist society?
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