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Scholar urges reframing reproductive labor as public care and building 'reflective solidarity'

December 02, 2025 | Missoula, Missoula County, Montana


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Scholar urges reframing reproductive labor as public care and building 'reflective solidarity'
Celia Winkler, a retired sociology professor, framed care and kinship as central to any post‑capitalist reorganization. Reviewing socialist‑feminist concepts she said reproductive labor (household and care work) must be reframed as publicly supported care work, not unpaid or marginalized labor.

Winkler described the welfare triangle (market, family, state) and criticized reliance on charity and NGOs in the U.S. She proposed expanding publicly provided care services, compensating care work through democratically controlled surplus value, and adopting flexible decision structures that avoid a new rigid hierarchy. As an example she cited Scandinavian parental‑leave policies that used a "use‑it‑or‑lose‑it" month for the second parent to encourage shared caregiving.

Winkler also emphasized the importance of "reflective solidarity," a model of community that treats inclusion and disagreement as constitutive rather than destructive. She called for integrating marginalized voices in planning and resisted narrow definitions of solidarity that demand uniformity.

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