For a book about reproductive labor, surprisingly little of the history charted in my book Reproduction Reconceived takes place in the home (Matthiesen 2021). That was in some ways the point. I had wanted to explore how increasing inequality and precarity at the end of the twentieth century forced different people's family making into various societal margins. In the process, I found that maintaining family under violent systems like mass incarceration or for-profit health care produced new, historically specific forms of reproductive exploitation outside of the home. Inspired by both Sarah Haley's (2016: 160) notion of the “domestic carceral sphere” produced by Jim Crow capitalism and social reproduction theory that looks to the many institutions that reproduce the working class, I deliberately sought to stretch the 1970s Marxist feminist insight that the most important shop floor was the home, not the factory.1 What forms did...

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