Marxism

Question 1

Engles

Answer 1

Nuclear family - a family unit made up of parents and their children, living in the same household usually
Exploiter - exploited relationship that many faced in the workplace
Men required to gain control over women

Question 2

Zaretsky

Answer 2

Workers would tolerate the powerlessness and frustration of being exploited at work.
Proletarian men take their stress out on their wives.

Question 3

Benston

Answer 3

Women renew men’s ability to go out to work and create profits.
Reproducing the next generation of workers at no cost to capitalist employers.

Women are in the home doing unpaid work, only one wage needs to be paid and a wife becomes dependent on her husband’s wage.

Question 4

Brugel

Answer 4

Women become a cheap ‘reserve army of labour’
Join the workforce when needed and then back to full-time housewife when not required.
Given less desirable contracts.
Competition amongst individuals for work and an acceptance of exploitation.