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

Main author: Mezzadri, Alessandra
Format: Journal Article           
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description 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.
format Journal Article
author Mezzadri, Alessandra
author_facet Mezzadri, Alessandra
authorStr Mezzadri, Alessandra
author_letter Mezzadri, Alessandra
title The Social Reproduction of Value, Body Depletion, and Wages for the Wageless across the Global Social Factory
publisher University of Kent
publishDate 2023
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/42487/