an unpaid act~vity which does not contribute to subsistence. I have coined [the term shadow economy] to speak about transactions which are not in the monetized sector and yet do not exist in pre-industrial society. . . . With the rise ,of this shadow economy I observe the appearance of a new kind of toil which is not rewarded by wages, and yet contributes nothing to the household's independence from the market. In other terms I claim that, in no period before the industrial period, either wage labor or its shadow (its complement, shadow work) existed, but people worked either as men or as women fundamentally together for the sustenance of the household. The eco- . nomic division between productive wage labor and domestic shadow May 1981 RAIN Page 5 Mark Anderson work did not exist before we moved into the industrial period. In and through the family the two complementary forms of industrial work were now fused: wage work and shadow work. Man and.woman, both effectively estranged from subsistence activities, became the motive for the other's exploitation for the profit of the employer and investments in capital goods . .Increasingly, surplus was not invested only in the so-called means of production. Shadow work itself became more and more capital-intensive. Investments in the home, the garage and the kitchen reflect the disappearance of subsistence from cont.--
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NTc4NTAz