Capitalists profit from unpaid reproductive and domestic labor without bearing its costs.

Evidence

There is another aspect that our class lens clarifies. Profit is driven not only by unpaid wage labor but also by the unpaid labor that takes place outside the company and ensures the physical and psychological well-being of the worker. We are talking about domestic work in the home, like cooking and cleaning and mending, as well as health care and schooling through which workers can build skills used in their jobs. These are essential costs for the healthy maintenance of the workforce, but the capitalist does not have to bear them (and may actually profit from delivering these essential services). — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 106

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the exploitation mechanism beyond the wage — relevant to Mattei’s later austerity cases where social reproduction is offloaded onto women and households, as in Kenya or Sri Lanka. — connects to: Capitalist profit also depends on unpaid domestic labor — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 106; Capital depends on unpaid female reproductive labour outside the factory — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 119; Cloud capital reproduces itself without waged labour, unlike all prior capital. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 316 (+2 more)