ABSTRACT
There appear to be two separate accounts of the division of labour: one that it all began with Adam Smith and the other that it all began with Adam and Eve. The first has to do with production and the social control of the workers and the second with reproduction and the social control of women. The problem is that the two accounts, both men’s accounts, have never been reconciled. Indeed it is only as a result of the urgent insistence of feminists that the problematic nature of the social order related to reproduction has been recognised.
