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id	eprints-38051
recordtype	eprints
institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
description	This article proposes a reading of the COVID‐19 crisis through a social reproduction lens, with a focus on the restructuring of reproductive sectors, the world of work and the generation of differentiated surplus populations, and considers the implications of this reading for global development debates on inequality and informal labour. Learning from the pandemic and the social reproduction of the surplus populations it generated, the analysis argues that debates on inequality should be re‐centred on its existential nature and its embeddedness in social oppression, and that labour relations should be considered as key reproducers of inequality. It also argues that informal labour should be increasingly understood as playing the reproductive role of ‘global housework’ in contemporary capitalism.
format	Journal Article
author	Mezzadri, Alessandra
author_facet	Mezzadri, Alessandra
authorStr	Mezzadri, Alessandra
author_letter	Mezzadri, Alessandra
title	The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour
publisher	Wiley
publishDate	2022
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/38051/