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The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour (2022)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A. (2022). The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour. Development and Change, 53(6), 1230-1253. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12736

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 implic... Read More about The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour.

When the Lewisian Dream Sours: Industrial Aspirations and Reverse Labour Migration (2022)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A., & Kaustav, B. (2022). When the Lewisian Dream Sours: Industrial Aspirations and Reverse Labour Migration. Journal of South Asian Development, 17(3), 297-326. https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741221124061

The COVID-19 pandemic has escalated processes of labour transition from industrial work to the informal economy, which have always characterized the life of the working poor. This paper explores this kind of reverse transition, that is, when the Lewi... Read More about When the Lewisian Dream Sours: Industrial Aspirations and Reverse Labour Migration.

Social Reproduction and Pandemic Neoliberalism: Planetary Crises and the Reorganization of Life, Work and Death (2022)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A. (2022). Social Reproduction and Pandemic Neoliberalism: Planetary Crises and the Reorganization of Life, Work and Death. Organization, 29(3), 379-400. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084221074042

This article portrays the COVID-19 pandemic as a planetary crisis of capitalist life and analyses it through the feminist political economy lens of social reproduction. Celebrating the plurality and distinctiveness of social reproduction theorisation... Read More about Social Reproduction and Pandemic Neoliberalism: Planetary Crises and the Reorganization of Life, Work and Death.