Marx and the Reproductive Work, Contemporary Debate Linked to the Past

Abstract

The reproductive work is an economic and social concept that has taken importance in the economics since multiple points of view. Therefore, in the present work a debate is generated with Karl Marx, one of the most important authors in economics. With the purpose of notice how from classical ideas, the reproductive work has been valued and differentiated from what is considerate productive work, starting from the labor theory of value. Concluding that is through those differentiations that the reproductive work has been subordinate even today, when this position can be discussed from multiples arguments presented.