Outputs (83)

The Invisible People Behind Our Masks (2021)
Journal Article
Barnett, B. S., Carlo, A. D., Ruwanpura, K. N., & Mezzadri, A. (2021). The Invisible People Behind Our Masks. Annals of internal medicine, 174(4), 550-551. https://doi.org/10.7326/M20-7421

Towards a Feminist Political Economy of Time Labour Circulation, Social Reproduction and the ‘Afterlife’ of Cheap Labour (2020)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A., & Majumder, S. (2022). Towards a Feminist Political Economy of Time Labour Circulation, Social Reproduction and the ‘Afterlife’ of Cheap Labour. Review of International Political Economy, 29(6), 1804-1826. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1857293

This article explores ‘time’ as a crucial category of analysis shaping and shaped by the dynamics of exploitation and social reproduction across the global assembly line. Focusing on the Indian garment industry, the article develops a feminist politi... Read More about Towards a Feminist Political Economy of Time Labour Circulation, Social Reproduction and the ‘Afterlife’ of Cheap Labour.

A Value Theory of Inclusion: Informal Labour, The Homeworker and the Social Reproduction of Value (2020)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A. (2021). A Value Theory of Inclusion: Informal Labour, The Homeworker and the Social Reproduction of Value. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 53(4), 1186-1205. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12701

Critically engaging with Marxist‐Feminist debates, this article argues that only interpretations of social reproduction as value‐producing capture the features of contemporary informalised labour relations. Building on early social reproduction analy... Read More about A Value Theory of Inclusion: Informal Labour, The Homeworker and the Social Reproduction of Value.

The Time and Gender of GVCs: 3 Critical Points on the GVC and Development Report 2019. In Online Symposium on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development, edited by Donatella Alessandrini, Clair Gammage, and Jeremmy Okonjo (2020)
Digital Artefact
Mezzadri, A. (2020). The Time and Gender of GVCs: 3 Critical Points on the GVC and Development Report 2019. In Online Symposium on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development, edited by Donatella Alessandrini, Clair Gammage, and Jeremmy Okonjo

Sweatshop Economics, the Poverty of Trade Theory and the Making of Inequality Across Scales (2020)
Book Chapter
Mezzadri, A. (2020). Sweatshop Economics, the Poverty of Trade Theory and the Making of Inequality Across Scales. In B. Dunn (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy (91-105). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903072.00011

This chapter argues that field-based research can provide key novel insights into the limitations of mainstream economic theories. The analysis provides a critique of comparative advantage and neoclassical trade models based on insights coming from y... Read More about Sweatshop Economics, the Poverty of Trade Theory and the Making of Inequality Across Scales.

How Asia’s clothing factories switched to making PPE – but sweatshop problems live on (2020)
Digital Artefact
Mezzadri, A., & Ruwanpura, K. N. (2020). How Asia’s clothing factories switched to making PPE – but sweatshop problems live on

The Informal Labours of Social Reproduction (2020)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A. (2020). The Informal Labours of Social Reproduction. Global labour journal, 11(2), 156-163. https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v11i2.4310

A crisis like no other: social reproduction and the regeneration of capitalist life during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020)
Digital Artefact
Mezzadri, A. A crisis like no other: social reproduction and the regeneration of capitalist life during the COVID-19 pandemic

Labour Control Regimes and Social Reproduction: Some Reflections on the Strengths and Weaknesses of an Evolving Framework (2020)
Book Chapter
Baglioni, E., & Mezzadri, A. (2020). Labour Control Regimes and Social Reproduction: Some Reflections on the Strengths and Weaknesses of an Evolving Framework. In A. Hammer, & A. Fishwick (Eds.), The Political Economy of Work in the Global South (115-130). Macmillan Education

The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and Garments Made in India (paperback) (2020)
Book
Mezzadri, A. (2020). The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and Garments Made in India (paperback). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316337912

This book explores the processes producing and reproducing the garment sweatshop in India. Drawing from Marxian and feminist insights, the book theorises the garment sweatshop in India as a complex 'regime' of exploitation and oppression, jointly cra... Read More about The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and Garments Made in India (paperback).