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     * To be successful, mass production depends on the mass consumption of highly standardized goods, e.g. cars, home applicances.     * To be successful, mass production depends on the mass consumption of highly standardized goods, e.g. cars, home applicances.
   * The Fordist industrial model is also a new social contract, a new normative idea of people’s entitlements and obligations as members of the society.   * The Fordist industrial model is also a new social contract, a new normative idea of people’s entitlements and obligations as members of the society.
-    * Mass production also depends on mass employment of low-skill labor, creating opportunities for greater social mobility and wealth accumulation (mostly for whites in the US).+    * Mass production also depends on mass employment of low-skill labor, creating opportunities for greater social mobility and wealth accumulation (mostly for whites in the US; see Florida and Feldman 1988).
     * Mass employment creates greater collective power for the labor movement, who claim more and more of a share of the profits of Fordist enterprise.     * Mass employment creates greater collective power for the labor movement, who claim more and more of a share of the profits of Fordist enterprise.
   * The Fordist social contract is also a specific “sexual contract” between men and women, who must play distinct, interdependent, unequal roles (Adkins 2016; see also Pateman [1988] 2018).   * The Fordist social contract is also a specific “sexual contract” between men and women, who must play distinct, interdependent, unequal roles (Adkins 2016; see also Pateman [1988] 2018).
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   * Kinship in the Fordist “private” domain of the nuclear family is still, as Carsten might say, something people do; it’s invisible to the rest of the world since doing kinship is seen as strictly women’s work.   * Kinship in the Fordist “private” domain of the nuclear family is still, as Carsten might say, something people do; it’s invisible to the rest of the world since doing kinship is seen as strictly women’s work.
-  * Even as the Fordist social contract collapses, people still adhere to this ideological representation of kinship as private. Women who work in dual-income households still do most if not all of the care work; they pull a “second shift” at home (A. Hochschild 1989).+  * Even as the Fordist social contract collapses, people still adhere to this ideological representation of kinship as private. Women who work in dual-income households still do most if not all of the care work; they pull a “second shift” at home (Hochschild 1989).
  
-==== Families in global capitalism have responded to the breakdown of the Fordist social contract in different and unequal ways ====+==== Families have responded to the breakdown of the Fordist social contract in different and unequal ways ====
  
   * Wealthy families commodify the acts of kinship by hiring domestic workers who work in the families’ homes, contributing to a system of “stratified reproduction” (Colen 1995).   * Wealthy families commodify the acts of kinship by hiring domestic workers who work in the families’ homes, contributing to a system of “stratified reproduction” (Colen 1995).
   * By and large, domestic workers in wealthy households are also other people’s mothers, and they depend on other kin to provide care work for their children in their absence, especially among transnational immigrant domestic workers.   * By and large, domestic workers in wealthy households are also other people’s mothers, and they depend on other kin to provide care work for their children in their absence, especially among transnational immigrant domestic workers.
-    * The result is a “global care chain” linking households through commodity and gift exchanges (A. R. Hochschild 2000). (These chains are also conduits of remittances within transnational households.)+    * The result is a “global care chain” linking households through commodity and gift exchanges (Hochschild 2000). (These chains are also conduits of remittances within transnational households.)
  
 In conclusion, global capitalism is a broken system on the verge of collapse. Informal economies and transnational reciprocity are the duct tape and chewing gum holding it together. In conclusion, global capitalism is a broken system on the verge of collapse. Informal economies and transnational reciprocity are the duct tape and chewing gum holding it together.
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-Fraser, Nancy. (1997) 2013. “After the Family Wage: A Postindustriell Thought Experiment.” In //Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the “Postsocialist” Condition//, 41–66. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315822174.+Florida, Richard L., and Marshall M.A. Feldman. 1988. “Housing in US Fordism*.” //International Journal of Urban and Regional Research// 12 (2): 187–210. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.1988.tb00449.x. 
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 +Fraser, Nancy. (1997) 2013. “After the Family Wage: A Postindustrial Thought Experiment.” In //Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the “Postsocialist” Condition//, 41–66. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315822174.
  
  
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-Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 2000. “Global Care Chains and Emotional Surplus Value.” In //On the Edge: Globalization and the New Millennium//, edited by Anthony Giddens and Will Hutton, 130–46. London: SAGE Publications.+———. 2000. “Global Care Chains and Emotional Surplus Value.” In //On the Edge: Globalization and the New Millennium//, edited by Anthony Giddens and Will Hutton, 130–46. London: SAGE Publications.
  
  
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