ABSTRACT
Family is sliding from public concern and having a family is merely an individual choice which, like every choice worthy of respect, one must afford. Domestic work, performed by migrant women who are exploited and deprived of their own family life, does bear today the capitalistic modes of production. The contemporary market economy does not see any utility in the workforce having a home and family or enjoying a domestic life: there are other means to keep the workforce quiet – and the same goes for the jobless. Beyond Polanyi's 'double movement' a third one is coming into view and without the rhetoric of the Failed Feminist Revolution thesis would recognize it more easily, completely and clearly: family life, superfluous and counterproductive to the interests of contemporary capitalism, is becoming a commercial good, only available at a fee, for those who can pay it and want to.
