The Social Reproduction of Value, Body Depletion, and Wages for the Wageless across the Global Social Factory

Authors

  • Alessandra Mezzadri

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.1217

Abstract

In this article, I reflect on the entanglements between production and social reproduction in structuring the process of value generation and exploitation, and how one can scale-up classic debates on domestic work to capture trends more broadly at work for the vast world of informal employment. I also reflect on how – in relation to patterns of exploitation co-shaped along the productive and reproductive continuum - bodily depletion should be understood as both input and output of what I call the process of ‘social reproduction of value’. This reading of value-generation not only centres the experience of millions of women worldwide, but also that of wageless workers across past and present histories of capitalism.

Author Biography

Alessandra Mezzadri

Department of Development Studies, SOAS University of London, UK.

Published

11-12-2023

How to Cite

Mezzadri, A. (2023). The Social Reproduction of Value, Body Depletion, and Wages for the Wageless across the Global Social Factory . Feminists@law, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.1217

Issue

Section

Social Reproduction