For queer folk, life, love and physical and mental health were extremely precarious, under threat at all times from a conservative culture that based its stability (non-precariousness) on repression and oppression … Likewise, women paid the price for post-war non-precariousness, compelled to provide free reproductive labour in the home, which was the sine qua non and ultimate cultural referent for stability, and denied access to The Financial Liquidation of Social Life 45 most occupations and ways of being (Federici 2012).

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 145