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The identification and valorization of unacknowledged, feminized forms of economic productivity has been an important task for feminist theory. Since the 1960s, feminists have tried to expand existing notions of labour in order to encompass activities quite at odds with the industrial model of mass manufacture and the capital/labour relationship that defined economic productivity throughout most of the 20th century. During the 1970s and early 1980s, socialist feminists tried to rethink women’s domesticity and maternal care as a form of reproductive labour, which complemented the industrial labour of the male breadwinner (Barrett, 1980; Delphy, 1984). More recently, feminists have played a central role in rethinking labour as the post-Fordist restructuring of economies has moved the productive emphasis away from industrial manufacture and towards the service and financial sectors, knowledge production and the …