A Family Matter: Responsibility and Selfishness in Spanish Households

Under the pressure of work's devaluation and state's retrenchment, men women in Spain manage their extended family resources a struggle to provide for dependents. These have become main axis inequality Spain's financialized economy. Drawing on fieldwork Madrid, I show that understand themselves terms this responsibility, internalizing capitalist pressures social reproduction as matter. This self-identification cuts through solidarities exploited waged work gendered domestic might generate, it makes one's ultimate reference point. Instead refusal responsibility used be socialized being principled political stance, then, is dismissed selfish.