To better situate the role of the state in our discussion, we must reiterate the two basic linkages of unpaid work to the rest of the economy from a structural point of view at the macro level by asking how unpaid work contributes to the rest of the economy. We have argued that some portions of unpaid work contributions comprise overhead household time made necessary due to deficits in physical infrastructure and social-sector service delivery infrastructure. This is typically more pronounced in developing countries (Kes and Swaminathan, 2006; Charmes, 2005) where regenerating the (potential) labour force requires longer hours of unpaid work, as explained earlier.