• Science & Society, Vol. 83, No. 4, October 2019, 451–468 451 “Social Reproduction Theory,” Social Reproduc- tion, and Household Production KIRSTIN MUNRO ABSTRACT: In redefning social reproduction to mean only the reproduction of labor-power, Social Reproduction Theory has deemphasized a central insight of Marxist feminism — the neces- sary role that household production plays in the reproduction of capitalist society. A model of production in capitalism — in which households, capitalist frms, and the state rely on inputs from the other sectors in their production process to perpetuate their own existences and in turn that of capitalist society as a whole — shows that it is necessary to tie the household and household production to the dynamics of production and reproduction in capitalist society. There is no social reproduction without “societal reproduction,” as all production and reproduction in capitalist society are shaped by accumulation. Thus, promoting human and environmental well-being requires fundamentally chang- ing the production processes that take place in households and elsewhere, not merely redistributing the costs and benefts of that production. KEYWORDS: Marxist-feminism; household production; social reproduction; capitalist society Introduction A KEY CONTRIBUTION of the past five decades of Marxist thought has been the insight that the household plays an inte- gral role in the reproduction of class society. Social Reproduc- tion Theory (SRT) borrows aspects of Marxist–feminist scholarship to theorize class struggle in our contemporary moment, emphasizing the working-class position and revolutionary capacity of people outside