ABSTRACT
A central theoretical concern of the Women's Movement in britain and elsewhere in the capitalist West has always been the analysis of the relation of the family to capitalism, or, more precisely, the relation of women's struggles within and concerning the family to her struggles in the sphere of wage work and other aspects of more public life. The debate over the theoretical analysis of domestic labour 1 was just one of many attempts to address this concern. Starting from the Marxist analysis of the capitalist mode of production, the contributors to the debate set out to analyse the nature of housework and its relation to work done under conditions of wage labour.
