The master thesis focuses on Marx's concepts of the different forms of subsumption of labour under capital (ideal, hybrid, formal, real) and applies them to reproductive labour in capitalism. To this end, it first reviews the body of Marxist feminist theory and focuses on debates on the value and productivity of reproductive labour. It affirms the theoretical approach of the Marxian school of social reproduction, which identifies reproductive labour in capitalism as part of its »differentiated unity«. It situates the theory of subsumption as an original contribution to the analysis of the debates on reproductive labour. In doing so, it defends the central thesis – the analysis of reproductive labour through the forms of subsumption to capital most accurately points to the place that reproductive labour occupies in capitalism, in the context of the relation between the productive and reproductive spheres. By placing unproductive forms of reproductive labour under hybrid subsumption, it defends the accompanying thesis that reproductive labour can never be fully actually subsumed under capital.
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