zaretsky

• how does Zaretsky believe family serves capitalism:

  • women's unpaid labour
  • unit of consumption
  • passing on of advantage in families (inheritance)
• what does Zaretsky believe the family is unable to provide?

  psychological and social needs of the individual because it perpetuates the capitalist system.
• what did Zaretsky argue about the capitalist system and families in his book 'Capitalism, the Family and Personal Life'?

  the capitalist society as eluded families into believing that their 'private life' is seperate from the economy.
• what did Zaretsky argue the solution to capitalism was?

  socialism
• what did Zaretsky argue about alienation?

  family can't compensate for the alienation experienced by people.
• how does the family unit feed into capitalism?

  the family buys products which keeps businesses making money by making families consume and buy products.
• what does zaretsky believe the family acts as?

  a vital unit of consumption for capitalism.
• how did zaretsky believe that the family supports the capitalist economy?

  • it relies on the housewife role as unpaid labour and reproducing the next generation of workers.
  • it acts as a vital unit of consumption.