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What does it mean?
Housework never ends because it is consumed by the life process.
In plain terms
Cleaning and housework must start again the moment it finishes.
What can you take from it?
Recognize the endless nature of domestic labor.

Where it applies

  • domestic life
  • labor studies

Putting it to work

  • value unseen labor
  • expect repetition

Questions to consider

  • What labor goes unnoticed?

Another view

Some domestic tasks are finite.

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