Outputs (83)

All is revealed: how productivity barely covers anything in fast fashion prices. (2019)
Digital Artefact
Mezzadri, A. All is revealed: how productivity barely covers anything in fast fashion prices

In April this year, the UK multi-channel retail brand Missguided advertised the sale of a £1 bikini. It was advertised as a one-off special deal to celebrate ten years of empowering women to look and feel good “without breaking the bank”. The publici... Read More about All is revealed: how productivity barely covers anything in fast fashion prices..

Review of: 'We the Workers'. Directed by Wen Hai. New York: Icarus Films, 2017. 174 minutes. (2019)
Digital Artefact
Mezzadri, A. (2019). Review of: 'We the Workers'. Directed by Wen Hai. New York: Icarus Films, 2017. 174 minutes

On the value of social reproduction: Informal labour, the majority world and the need for inclusive theories and politics (2019)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A. (2019). On the value of social reproduction: Informal labour, the majority world and the need for inclusive theories and politics. Radical Philosophy, 2(4), 33-41

Rana Plaza, Six Years On: We Will Not Shop Where We Cannot Struggle (2019)
Digital Artefact
Mezzadri, A. Rana Plaza, Six Years On: We Will Not Shop Where We Cannot Struggle

On the sixth anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster, Alessandra Mezzadri, a Senior Lecturer at SOAS, London, and author of The Sweatshop Regime: Garment, Exploitation and Labouring Bodies 'Made in India’, discusses the progress - or lack of - when it... Read More about Rana Plaza, Six Years On: We Will Not Shop Where We Cannot Struggle.

The march out of the sweatshop: on work and life after the garment factory (2019)
Digital Artefact
Mezzadri, A. The march out of the sweatshop: on work and life after the garment factory

Changing Dynamics of Tobacco Production and Exchange in South India: Towards a Socio-Ecological Analysis (2019)
Thesis
Natarajan, N. Changing Dynamics of Tobacco Production and Exchange in South India: Towards a Socio-Ecological Analysis. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores the declining production and exchange of tobacco in South India through a theoretical lens that is attendant to the changing dynamics of socio-ecological factors. The thesis builds on a broader literature of research which has hi... Read More about Changing Dynamics of Tobacco Production and Exchange in South India: Towards a Socio-Ecological Analysis.

Industrial workers in the garment industry, house-workers in the family : women's productive and reproductive labour in Izmir, Turkey (2019)
Thesis
Arslan, A. Industrial workers in the garment industry, house-workers in the family : women's productive and reproductive labour in Izmir, Turkey. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The ‘Afterlife’ of Cheap Labour: Bangalore Garment Workers from Factories to the Informal Economy (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Mezzadri, A., & Majumder, S. The ‘Afterlife’ of Cheap Labour: Bangalore Garment Workers from Factories to the Informal Economy. FEDI and Cividep Working Paper

‘Classes of Labour’ at the Margins of Global Commodity Chains in India and China (2018)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A., & Lulu, F. (2018). ‘Classes of Labour’ at the Margins of Global Commodity Chains in India and China. Development and Change, 49(4), 1034-1063. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12412

This article deploys the concept of ‘classes of labour’ to map and compare non‐factory labour relations in the garment chain across Delhi and Shanghai metropolitan areas. It contributes to commodity studies by unpacking the great complexity of mechan... Read More about ‘Classes of Labour’ at the Margins of Global Commodity Chains in India and China.

Health and Safety in Garment Workers’ Lives: Setting a New Research Agenda (2017)
Journal Article
Prentice, R., De Neve, G., Mezzadri, A., & Ruwanpura, K. N. (2017). Health and Safety in Garment Workers’ Lives: Setting a New Research Agenda. Geoforum, 88(Jan), 157-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.11.024

Amidst new global initiatives to promote garment workers’ health and safety following a spate of deadly factory disasters across the Global South, this critical review calls for an expanded research agenda that looks beyond the workplace to examine t... Read More about Health and Safety in Garment Workers’ Lives: Setting a New Research Agenda.