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

Mezzadri, Alessandra

Abstract

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.

Citation

Mezzadri, A. (2023). The Social Reproduction of Value, Body Depletion, and Wages for the Wageless across the Global Social Factory. feminists@law, 12(2), https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.1217

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 1, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Dec 11, 2023
• Publication Date: Dec 11, 2023
• Deposit Date: Sep 13, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 13, 2024
• Journal: feminists@law
• Electronic ISSN: 2046-9551
• Publisher: University of Kent
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 2
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.1217
• Publisher URL: https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/feministsatlaw/article/view/1217