Social reproduction is broadly defined as nonprofit or profited procedures and tasks that maintain attributes of a specific social custom throughout one’s time. Primary, these tasks are usually in forms of domestic labor, child bearing, nurturing, educating one’s child and fostering individuals with disadvantages. In Barbara Cameron's Social Reproduction and Canadian Federalism, Cameron described social reproduction as two separate outlooks; “The concept includes but goes beyond physical recreation, in the sense of both biological reproduction and the daily maintenance of the current and future generation of workers” (Cameron, 45). The first outlook is the “biological reproduction”, the process of conception to childbirth, encompassing reproductive behavior, the “nonprofit procedure” and the second outlook, the “daily maintenance”—the day-by-day tasks of one’s “daily reproduction” and “profit” of life. In this assignment, I will evidently demonstrate my examples of “daily reproduction” and “profited tasks” through my eyes, as a young female adult that has not undergone “biological reproduction” or conceived. Upon recording my day-to-day activities, I have conjured up “broad range of activities, in an array of locations, which combine to ensure the daily and generational reproduction of the popluaton”(Bezanson, 24). In such, they are unpaid and my individual way of living and social contributions to the westernized population. This definition is governed and portrayed in my time use by cognitive activities, domestic activities (household chores), eating, passive leisure (resting, watching TV), personal care (shower, brushing teeth), educational activities (hours at school), sleeping, social leisure(socializing, cellular mobile usage, instant messaging), commuting (traveling to school and work), and shopping. Along with activities, these are also “tasks” that “reflects on the components of transforming wages and other inputs into reproduction, in a physical, social, and psychological sense.” (Cameron, 24) The “physical sense” is portrayed through commuting, domestic activities, personal care, and eating. The “social sense” is based through social activities and communication among peers such as shopping and social leisure. Lastly, the “psychological sense” is demonstrated through cognitive leisure, passive leisure and educational activities. My family assisted me with social reproduction, especially my parents who assigned me domestic work and provided assistance in commuting to school. My peers contributed to my social leisure, along with my professors as school who provided me with educational activities. In Marilyn Waring’s Sex, Lies, and Global Economics, she discusses the difference between social production and paid work. Social reproduction does not have the ability to produce a sustainable moderate income nor provide a healthy contribution to the economy’s stocks and therefore unvalued. “Cathy mows the lawn, prepares lunch….but her day is considered unproductive, because her work does not earn a wage therefore she is unoccupied, and an economist would see her economically inactive” (Waring, 1995). My paid work as a cashier at a Japanese restaurant is not marked or gendered, salaried accordingly to minimum wage and will never be executed within my household. The attributes for my paid work differ from that of social reproduction and hence fourth, unrelated. However, the process of labor and the laboring work itself is a candidate for social reproduction. The “tasks” portrayed as labor that one must undergo at work. The two conflicts and contradicts one another; therefore, in order for social reproduction to be present, labor has to be present. Completing this assignment has shone a brighter light upon my perspective towards women and social reproduction. I have learned that I am an important factor towards social reproduction within my household and that the topic itself, social reproduction is a complicated theory that requires more than a couple of sentences to fully interpret its actual meaning. I have learned that social reproduction is a crucial factor to mankind, to one’s survival and that it is a process and a task, biologically and daily, it exists within relationships, economically and biologically and can be altered and will exist indefinitely.

Works Cited
Bezanson, Kate. "Struggles over Social Reproduction in a Neo-liberal Era." Gender, the State and Social Reproduction: Household Insecurity in Neo-Liberal Times (2006): 22+.

Cameron, Barbara. Social Reproduction and Canadian Federalism. Social Reproduction. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2006. 45.
Who's Counting? Prod. Terre Nash. Perf. Marilyn Waring. DVD. The National Film Board of Canada, 1995.